Hantavirus shows wisdom of South Africa’s position on pathogen access and benefit sharing
Daily Maverick | 20.05.2026 19:26
In recent weeks South Africans learnt about the hantavirus, after an outbreak on a cruise ship that had docked on the country’s shores. News spread that some passengers were very ill and that a small number of deaths had occurred due to the outbreak. Even so, ill patients were taken from the cruise ship, admitted to South African hospitals and provided with care. South African scientists immediately started mapping the genomic profile of the hantavirus pathogen causing the outbreak.
