Hantavirus and the lessons of Covid: Screening the EU’s public health response
Hantavirus and the lessons of Covid: Screening the EU’s public health response
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In this episode we explore how the EU deals with outbreaks of disease. The latest scare for Europeans has been the hantavirus, detected on cruise ship the MV Hondius, which subsequently docked in Spain. Experts have stressed that this virus is not like Covid-19 and is much less infectious. Nevertheless, the EU’s civil protection mechanism was triggered, and several member states took part in evacuation flights from Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
We discuss the current virus threats, including Ebola, and ask what lessons the EU has learned from the Covid pandemic – and what it hasn’t learned.
Programme prepared by Isabelle Romero, Perrine Desplats and Aline Bottin
