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ship’s passengers An outbreak in rural communities 30 years ago in the Patagonia area of [Argentina](https://www.theguardian.com/world/argentina) led scientists, for the first time, to document person-to-person transmission of hantavirus, which
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
details have been released about when and where she left the cruise and travelled to the US. Three people have died after travelling on the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius ship. Two of them were confirmed
outbreak on a Dutch cruise ship](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y093d5n9ko). So far three passengers on the MV Hondius have died after the cruise ship set sail from Argentina on its voyage across the Atlantic Ocean around
cruise ship is a massive benefit for public health. “Cabins are tight and small with limited air circulation,” says Hammer. “Passengers remain in close, sustained contact for extended periods of time.” But, once the outbreak
Argentina for clues. In that outbreak, the virus spread among birthday party guests who were seated near each other, a [2020 study published](https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040) in the *New England Journal of Medicine* explains. Then
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