{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/67c5d757b48a8f157c1f9076/6a0197fb5c981a3573c7cbc0?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Two Irish Passengers From Hantavirus-Hit Cruise Ship Return Home - 11/05/2026","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/67c5d757b48a8f157c1f9076/1778488913495-a480dda9-b6cd-4029-a37d-6c7ce26ef07c.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Two Irish people who had been on board a cruise ship hit by hantavirus returned home on Sunday on an Air Corps plane that landed at Baldonnel military airbase in Dublin just after 9pm.</p><p><br></p><p>Ann Lane, a former personal assistant to former president Mary Robinson who lives in Dublin, and her friend were accompanied by Health Service Executive (HSE) medics on the flight from Tenerife.</p><p><br></p><p>The Department of Health said both would now “isolate for a period of time in a HSE facility, in line with European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) guidance”.</p><p><br></p><p>About 20 minutes after the plane landed, two National Ambulance Service ambulances, their windows blacked out, emerged from the campus, followed by a HSE paramedic’s car. The vehicles turned right, towards the city.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>We found out more about all of this on The Agenda this morning </p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"lmfm "}