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hantavirus cases](https://www.theguardian.com/world/hantavirus) after the outbreak onboard the MV Hondius, and thanked Spain for the “compassion and solidarity” it had shown by [taking in the stricken cruise ship
cruise ship hit by hantavirus has arrived in the UK. They flew home from Tenerife on a charter flight after the HV Hondius docked there early on Sunday morning and will now be taken
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
cruise ship is the Andes virus. It has been found in Latin America and is the only hantavirus known to be capable of limited human-to-human transmission. In previous outbreaks
outbreak of a lethal 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
hantavirus after a case was detected among a Dutch crew member of the ship at the centre of the outbreak. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO chief, told a news conference in Geneva on Friday that
hantavirus on a cruise ship. But for the general public, Bausch isn't too concerned. Since the virus does not transmit through the air and because patients only really spread the virus when symptomatic
outbreak after the evacuation of the last passengers from the ship a day earlier. But he warned that "the situation could change" and there could be more confirmed virus cases. Hantaviruses are usually carried
cruise ship that departed Argentina on a polar expedition. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reiterated that the “risk” to the global population is “low”. The captain and the ship’s 26-member crew remain
cruise ship are improving, global health officials have said. A British passenger, understood to be a 69-year-old man, was taken to [South Africa](https://www.theguardian.com/world/southafrica) on 27 April and is receiving care
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 negotiations between
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 arrives in Tenerife with Spanish passengers to be evacuated first – Europe live Good morning, and welcome to our [Europe](https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news) live blog. Spanish health officials have said all the passengers
cruise ship being held in the Atlantic near Cape Verde, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. Among the [seven cases](/news/2026/5/3/three-dead-in-suspected-hantavirus-outbreak-on-atlantic-cruise-ship), three people have died, one was critically ill and three have mild symptoms
cruise to some of the most remote places on Earth. Instead, hantavirus claimed the lives of three of his fellow passengers on the MV Hondius - sparking an international frenzy over how and where to repatriate
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 does. The 16 passengers who were taken to Nebraska are in "good shape" and "good spirits", Michael Wadman, medical director of the National Quarantine Unit, said. He said the person who had tested
ship M/V Hondius were being repatriated to the United States on Sunday after the vessel docked in Tenerife and all the passengers were evacuated. Upon their arrival in [Spain](https://www.theguardian.com/world/spain), medical teams from
cruises that served as vectors of disease transmission. As Bjorn Thor Arnarson wrote in Scientific Reports, “human transportation was needed to distribute the virus to new places.” Those moving most freely across borders were overwhelmingly
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