A 32-year-old woman in the southeastern Spanish ​province of Alicante has symptoms consistent with ‌a hantavirus infection and is being tested, Spanish health officials said on Friday.

The woman was a passenger on the same flight as a patient ​who died in Johannesburg after travelling on the MV ​Hondius cruise ship and contracting the virus, Secretary of ⁠State for Health Javier Padilla told reporters.

Authorities have ​identified the Andes strain of hantavirus on the ​ship, a version that can spread from human to human in rare cases, typically only after close contact.

The woman has "mild respiratory ​symptoms" and is being transferred to a hospital ​in the city of Alicante where she will be tested ‌for ⁠the virus, with results expected 24 to 48 hours later, according to a statement on the regional health department's website.

Padilla said the woman, a resident of ​Alicante in the ​Valencia region, ⁠was sitting two rows behind the cruise ship passenger, but the contact between ​them "was brief" since the passenger had ​only been "on ⁠board for a short time" during the flight.

Padilla added that Valencia's regional health authorities were tracing the ⁠people ​the woman has been in contact ​with over the past few days.