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MV Hondius on 6 May. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images - **Authorities around the world are scrambling to locate dozens of passengers who were on the cruise ship at the centre of a deadly hantavirus outbreak

Spanish authorities prepare for arrival of hantavirus-stricken cruise ship

MV Hondius “don’t seem to be both infected in some cases”. Lindmeier said the disease was “not spreading anything close to how Covid was spreading”. He added that contact tracing was effective “because

About 40 passengers previously left ship hit by Hantavirus at island of St. Helena

MV Hondius cruise ship departs the port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. **Misper Apawu/AP** Misper Apawu/AP THE HAGUE, Netherlands — About 40 passengers on a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak

Two Britons self-isolating after returning to UK from hantavirus-hit ship, say officials

MV Hondius have died since 11 April. As of Thursday, there have been eight suspected cases, three of which were confirmed as hantavirus – a rare family of viruses carried by rodents – by lab testing, according

What is hantavirus, suspected in deaths of three people on cruise ship?

outbreak of the hantavirus, authorities say. The virus is a rare infection transmitted to humans by rodents. On Monday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said the risk posed by the hantavirus to the wider public

Crew members on hantavirus cruise ship to be evacuated | First Thing

MV Hondius](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/05/mv-hondius-ice-breaking-expedition-cruise-suspected-hantavirus-outbreak) are being [prepared for medical evacuation](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/05/british-crew-member-dutch-mv-hondius-cruise-ship-hantavirus-cases) to the Netherlands, as the cruise ship continues to be marooned off the coast of Cape Verde following a suspected hantavirus

UK identifies new suspected hantavirus case on remote island

hantavirus](/news/2026/5/4/what-is-hantavirus-suspected-in-deaths-of-three-people-on-cruise-ship) outbreak linked to a cruise ship, with a new suspected case identified among a British national on the remote South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha. The UK Health Security Agency confirmed

Spain agrees to let hantavirus-hit cruise ship dock in Canary Islands

hantavirus outbreak](/news/2026/5/4/what-is-hantavirus-suspected-in-deaths-of-three-people-on-cruise-ship) and anchored off the coast of Cape Verde to sail to the Canary Islands. Spain’s Ministry of Health said in a statement late on Tuesday that the World Health Organization

Cruise ship at centre of suspected hantavirus outbreak blocked from docking in Cape Verde

outbreak](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/03/three-passengers-dead-after-suspected-hantavirus-outbreak-on-cruise-ship) of hantavirus, a disease primarily found in rodents, on the cruise ship in the Atlantic. The hantavirus is suspected of killing three people, including a married couple from the Netherlands, sickening