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hantavirus outbreak, which affected cruise ship passengers from 23 countries, including wealthy Western nations. “You just
hantavirus outbreak, passengers and crew members from more than 20 countries on the affected cruise
outbreak response has been "high chaotic and uncoordinated" but there was little general risk to the public. Here is what we know about the countries affected so far: Three British nationals have suspected hantavirus
outbreak of the hantavirus, authorities say. The virus is a rare infection transmitted to humans by rodents. On Monday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said the risk posed by the hantavirus to the wider public
hantavirus, a rare disease transmitted to humans from rodents. Health authorities are now investigating a suspected outbreak of the virus on the MV Hondius, which is sailing from Ushuaia in Argentina to Cape Verde
country or elsewhere in the world," Juan Facundo Petrina, director of epidemiology for Tierra del Fuego province, told AP in an interview from Ushuaia. He noted that the province hasn't historically seen hantavirus cases
outbreak](https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/measles/) and monitoring for hantavirus. And the nation's public health system is not at its peak, says [Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo](https://www.idsociety.org/news--publications-new/articles/2025/idsa-selects-next-ceo/), a former top official at the National Institutes
country’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases. Hantavirus is more commonly transmitted through contact with the urine, saliva or faeces of infected rodents. The director-general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the current
hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. “It’s transmitted from specific species of rodent,” says Hammer, “and we already have evidence of it transmitting from human to human. But being on a boat with 20 plus nationalities represented
outbreak of the rare hantavirus infection on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean has [killed three people](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/03/three-passengers-dead-after-suspected-hantavirus-outbreak-on-cruise-ship)**, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and South Africa’s health department
hantavirus outbreak since it departed from Argentina a month ago. Spanish authorities have given permission for the ship to dock in the Canary Islands, despite concerns from local officials. [About 150 people are still aboard
affected by this outbreak”. The advisory came a day after the World Health Organization [declared](https://www.who.int/news/item/17-05-2026-epidemic-of-ebola-disease-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-and-uganda-determined-a-public-health-emergency-of-international-concern) a “public health emergency of international concern” caused by the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus
outbreak was reported aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship, which was travelling from Argentina to Cape Verde. Here's what we know about hantavirus. Hantavirus refers to a strain of viruses carried by rodents, primarily
affects the kidneys. The viruses are [named after the Hantan River](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2880890/) in South Korea, where the first virus belonging to the family was isolated in 1978. By that time, researchers had tried
outbreak, said he thought it had been “fine”. The 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
affected by the [hantavirus outbreak](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/07/where-cruise-ship-hantavirus-from-what-next-canary-islands), with plans to accompany American passengers back to the US on a chartered flight and place them into quarantine in Nebraska. An additional CDC team is already
hantavirus and Ebola, many state and local health officials now have less power to protect the public from all kinds of disease outbreaks than during the COVID-19 pandemic. ### [Health](https://www.npr.org/sections/health/) ### [Heat, bugs
hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius, Spain, 10 May, 2026. Photograph: AP The two outbreaks “are just the latest crises in our troubled world”, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the opening
hantavirus outbreak on transatlantic cruise](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/06/nx-s1-5812588/what-to-know-about-the-hantavirus-outbreak-on-transatlantic-cruise) "Ecological systems are complex and messy," he says. Making sense of that mess to draw distinct lines from biodiversity to human nutrition takes painstaking work — tracing people
outbreak was detected. They are also trying to trace others who may have come into contact with them since then. On 24 April, nearly two weeks after the first passenger had died onboard, more than