{"id":60366,"date":"2026-05-12T10:51:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=60366"},"modified":"2026-05-12T10:51:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:51:49","slug":"algeria-activates-emergency-health-measures-against-hanta-virus-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=60366","title":{"rendered":"Algeria Activates Emergency Health Measures Against Hanta Virus Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria&#8217;s Ministry of Health has activated precautionary measures to counter the potential spread of the Hanta virus, following a World Health Organization alert regarding confirmed cases aboard the cruise ship <strong>&#8220;AM Fine Honduras.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Authorities confirmed that the risk level inside Algeria remains <strong>weak and low<\/strong>, with no direct epidemic link detected domestically.<\/p>\n<p>The General Directorate of Prevention and Health Promotion issued an urgent circular \u2014 numbered 13, dated May 11, 2026 \u2014 to all provincial governors, regional directors, and hospital centers, ordering an elevated health alert status and immediate response protocols for any suspected Hanta virus cases.<\/p>\n<p>The directive, obtained exclusively by <strong>dzwatch<\/strong>, includes proactive containment measures: enforcing isolation procedures within health facilities, intensifying rodent control campaigns, and raising public health awareness to prevent any potential imported cases.<\/p>\n<p>Officials told <strong>dzwatch<\/strong> that Hanta virus infections remain rare and fully containable through early detection, strict isolation, rapid medical care, and close monitoring of patient contacts \u2014 noting that the incubation period may extend up to six weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria&#8217;s Ministry of Health has activated precautionary measures to counter the potential spread of the Hanta virus, following a World Health Organization alert regarding confirmed cases aboard the cruise ship &#8220;AM Fine Honduras.&#8221; Authorities confirmed that the risk level inside Algeria remains weak and low, with no direct epidemic link detected domestically. The General Directorate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}