Version of hantavirus behind deadly outbreak matches known strain, France says

France's Pasteur Institute said it has fully sequenced the Andes virus detected in a French passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship and found it matched viruses already known in South America, with no evidence so far of new characteristics that would make it more transmissible or more dangerous . "The analyzed virus corresponds to the viruses already known and monitored in South America," Health Minister Stéphanie Rist said Friday on social media. …