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cruise ship in the Atlantic, with at least one confirmed to have suffered from hantavirus, a rare disease transmitted to humans from rodents. Health authorities are now investigating a suspected outbreak of the virus
cruise ship. So what is the hantavirus, how does it spread and should people be worried? ## Who caught the hantavirus on the MV Hondius? The MV Hondius was sailing from Ushuaia, Argentina, to Cape Verde
outbreak on the Dutch vessel MV Hondius. The cruise ship [is](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7pzmg8zeno) [now anchored in Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7pzmg8zeno) where passengers are being evacuated and flown home
cruise ship hit by a [deadly hantavirus outbreak](/news/2026/5/11/where-did-the-hantavirus-outbreak-start-and-where-has-it-spread) have landed in the Netherlands, as a repatriated [US passenger](/news/2026/5/11/two-more-cruise-ship-passengers-test-positive-for-hantavirus) tested positive for the respiratory infection. The two planes carried 28 evacuees from
hantavirus - prominent in Latin America, where the cruise originated - was found in two of the confirmed patients after tests were carried out by the country's National Institute for Communicable Diseases. Experts have observed
outbreak is still unknown and it is not known if people other than cruise ship passengers and crew have been infected with the disease. WHO director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus told a news conference that
hantavirus cases](https://www.theguardian.com/world/hantavirus) after the outbreak onboard the MV Hondius, and thanked Spain for the “compassion and solidarity” it had shown by [taking in the stricken cruise ship](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/08/spanish-authorities-prepare-arrival-hantavirus-cruise-ship-hondius) and evacuating
cruise ship that departed Argentina on a polar expedition. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reiterated that the “risk” to the global population is “low”. The captain and the ship’s 26-member crew remain
Argentina, on April 1 for a cruise across the Atlantic Ocean to Cape Verde. Argentinian provincial health official Juan Petrina said there was an “almost zero chance” the Dutch man linked to the outbreak contracted
ship passengers as well as what to know about this particular type of hantavirus and the U.S. response. ### **The latest figures on the outbreak** Eight cases have been reported — five confirmed by testing. The others
cruise ship, which set sail from Argentina on 1 April, finally docked in Tenerife, in Spain's Canary Islands, less than a week ago, allowing its 147 passengers and crew from 23 countries to leave
outbreak of a lethal hantavirus strain onboard a luxury cruise liner was reported to the [World Health Organization](https://www.theguardian.com/world/world-health-organization) (WHO). As of this morning, nine probable cases have been identified, with three fatalities
outbreak in Argentina in 2018-19 which led to 34 cases. Seven British people were among 30 from 12 nations who left the ship when it docked in the remote South Atlantic island of Saint
outbreak "We're not just a story. We're not just headlines, we're people with families, with lives, with people waiting for us at home," said a tearful Jake Rosmarin. For the American travel
hantavirus after a case was detected among a Dutch crew member of the ship at the centre of the outbreak. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO chief, told a news conference in Geneva on Friday that
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
hantavirus on board the MV Hondius cruise ship, it is finally approaching Tenerife in the Canary Islands. Intensive preparations have been under way to receive the ship in the port of Granadilla and help more
cruise ship is the Andes virus. It has been found in Latin America and is the only hantavirus known to be capable of limited human-to-human transmission. In previous outbreaks, transmission between people
hantavirus on Monday. French Health Minister Stéphanie Rist said a woman was isolating in Paris and that her health was deteriorating, with 22 contacts being traced. In a separate development, the US health department said
cruise ship being held in the Atlantic near Cape Verde, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. Among the [seven cases](/news/2026/5/3/three-dead-in-suspected-hantavirus-outbreak-on-atlantic-cruise-ship), three people have died, one was critically ill and three have mild symptoms