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Hantavirus is usually spread by the inhalation of contaminated rodent droppings and is not easily transmitted between people. But the Andes virus detected in the cruise ship outbreak may be able to spread between people
cruise ship in the Atlantic. The hantavirus is suspected of killing three people, including a married couple from the Netherlands, sickening at least two others on the ship and sending a 69-year-old British
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
case has only reported a mild fever. ## Medical evacuations The Spanish Health Ministry said the MV Hondius will journey on to the Canary Islands once those who need evacuation are taken off the ship
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. It began its journey
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
MV Hondius when the illness most commonly transmitted to humans through contact with infected rodents broke out. As of Monday, the [World Health Organization](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Boffhsl7o) has reported at least nine cases of hantavirus
MV Hondius left Argentina, where hantavirus is endemic, on April 1 for a cruise across the Atlantic Ocean to Cape Verde. The World Health Organization believes the first infection occurred before the start
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. It has left experts
MV Hondius cruise ship,” [Nebraska](https://www.theguardian.com/film/nebraska) Medicine said in a statement to CNN. “We cannot discuss specific communications at this time, but, our specialized teams, including the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit and National Quarantine
MV Hondius on 24 April. The Dutch government gave a different figure of 40. Health authorities are now trying to trace the passengers who left the ship on the British Overseas Territory. The Dutch government
cruise ship will undergo the first three weeks of their quarantine at the Bullsbrook national resilience centre, just outside Perth. The flight crew that brings them back to the country will have to join them
case. The patient, along with five other German nationals travelling with him, was placed under observation. Authorities later discovered that the tourist had been in contact, in Germany, with a Chinese businesswoman infected with COVID
MV Hondius, a Dutch ship on a weekslong polar cruise from Argentina to Antarctica and several isolated islands in the South Atlantic, had requested help from local health authorities after making
hantavirus-hit cruise ship have arrived on Merseyside to isolate in a hospital block last used to quarantine Britons who travelled back from China at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Built to house
cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak are spending their first day at an isolation facility after being repatriated from Tenerife. A chartered Titan Airways flight transported the MV Hondius passengers from the Canary Islands
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 after a hantavirus outbreak are set to start leaving a Liverpool hospital where they have been isolating since returning to the UK. The passengers and crew who were on board the MV Hondius
cruise ship at the centre of a [deadly hantavirus outbreak](https://www.theguardian.com/world/hantavirus) have tested positive for the virus, as the complex operation to repatriate those on board continued on Monday. The French woman
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