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detailed investigations" into the suspected hantavirus cases are "ongoing, including further laboratory testing". The outbreak was reported aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship, which was travelling from Argentina
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
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 may spread between people. It was unclear how an outbreak could have started, and WHO said it was investigating while working to coordinate the evacuation of two sick crew members. Another sick person
Argentina, where the cruise trip started in March. A presentation seen by Reuters said tests done by South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases revealed that the Andes strain was the cause of infection