59 resultsfor “symptoms of hantavirus in cruise passengers”
hantavirus-stricken cruise ship](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/07/where-cruise-ship-hantavirus-from-what-next-canary-islands). The Dutch-flagged vessel, which was sailing from Argentina to Cape Verde, is due to arrive off the Canary island of Tenerife at around midday on Sunday. After
symptoms can easily be mistaken for the flu. Research suggested hantaviruses have circulated for centuries with outbreaks recorded in parts of Asia and Europe. A previously unknown group of hantaviruses emerged in the early 1990s
symptoms "may die" from the condition. Humans are typically infected when inhaling hantaviruses that have become airborne from rodent excretions. However, in a small number of case studies it appears the virus can be transmitted
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
cruise — a Dutch couple and a German woman — have died from the virus. The Dutch couple is thought to have come into contact with hantavirus before boarding the ship, during a birdwatching excursion
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
cruise on 11 April, but is not a confirmed case of hantavirus. The Dutch government update said before her death she had boarded a KLM flight heading from Johannesburg to the Netherlands, but became
passengers on the MV Hondius have died after the cruise ship set sail from Argentina on its voyage across the Atlantic Ocean around a month ago. The cruise operator confirmed that three people - including
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
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 on which an outbreak of hantavirus occurred. Tedros Ghebreyesus stressed that "this is not another Covid" and that there were no symptomatic passengers currently aboard the MV Hondius, in a personal message
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
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
passengers with severe respiratory illness on the Hondius cruise ship, currently sailing from Cape Verde in the Atlantic to the Spanish island of Tenerife. “While this is a serious incident, WHO assesses the public health
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
cruise. The passengers were set to arrive in Nebraska on a special chartered flight, the authorities said. Nebraska is home to the national quarantine unit and the Nebraska biocontainment unit. Describing the process following
cruise ship, does. The British man who lives on Tristan da Cunha disembarked on 14 April, the [World Health Organization (WHO) said](https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2026-DON600). He reported having diarrhoea on 28 April and fever
cruise ship MV Hondius](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/07/where-cruise-ship-hantavirus-from-what-next-canary-islands) that departed from Argentina bound for Cape Verde. Although it is not yet confirmed how the passengers were infected, a hypothesis being investigated by the World Health Organization
cruise ship at the centre of a giant global commotion. Christened the “rat virus boat” by the internet after [three people travelling onboard died of hantavirus](https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/may/09/how-hantavirus-turned-hondius-dream-cruise-into-tragedy), a disease normally carried by rats