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Two more cruise ship passengers test positive for hantavirus

Hondius arrives to the industrial port of Granadilla de Abona on the island of Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/AFP__20260510__B2DN2ZL__v2__HighRes__TopshotSpainHealthHantavirusIllnessTourism-1778397136.jpg?w=770&resize=770%2C512&quality=80) The Dutch-flagged, hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV

Cruise ship hit by hantavirus outbreak arrives in Tenerife

arrived near the Port of Granadilla in Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The Dutch-flagged MV Hondius

WHO chief reassures Tenerife residents ahead of hantavirus cruise ship arrival

Canary Island. The MV Hondius is due to arrive in the port of Granadilla in the early

Six from hantavirus cruise ship leave Arrowe Park hospital to isolate at home

Canary Islands](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f250568a7fa11fdbf2b56572986d26d8846cbdbc/404_0_4578_3664/master/4578.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) The MV Hondius arrived off the coast of Tenerife over

Spain readies for evacuations as a hantavirus-hit cruise ship heads for Canary Islands

Canary Islands ![Health workers in protective gear arrive to evacuate patients from the MV Hondius

WHO head warns countries to prepare for more hantavirus cases

Canary island on Monday night and arrived in the Netherlands early on Tuesday. The MV Hondius

Spain agrees to let hantavirus-hit cruise ship dock in Canary Islands

Canary Islands will take three days of sailing and that the MV Hondius will dock in either Gran Canaria or Tenerife. When the rest of the crew and passengers arrive

CDC says threat of widespread outbreak of hantavirus remains low

Canary Islands, Spain. The cruise ship MV Hondius, which had three passengers die from Hantavirus last month and eight more reported cases, is expected to arrive

Spanish authorities prepare for arrival of hantavirus-stricken cruise ship

arrive off the Canary island of Tenerife at around midday on Sunday. After negotiations between the Spanish government and the archipelago’s regional authorities, the MV Hondius

Tenerife medics poised for arrival of virus-hit cruise ship

arrival of virus-hit cruise ship Almost a month after the first passenger died of the hantavirus on board the MV Hondius cruise ship, it is finally approaching Tenerife in the Canary Islands

Last passengers from hantavirus-hit ship evacuated; American tests positive

MV Hondius, which had been [docked in the Canary Islands](/news/2026/5/10/cruise-ship-hit-by-hantavirus-outbreak-arrives-in-tenerife), including six passengers and 19 crew members, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday. The passengers – four from Australia, one from

Cruise ship hit by hantavirus arrives in Tenerife to evacuate passengers

arrived in the Canary Islands in the early hours of Sunday morning carrying 146 people, after three people died of the virus and eight more became ill. While nobody onboard the vessel has symptoms, passengers

Why cruise ship passengers with possible hantavirus exposure went to Nebraska

Hondius in the Granadilla Port on Sunday in Tenerife, part of the Canary Islands, Spain.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/3128x3128+446+0/resize/100/quality/85/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fbe%2F50%2F13f90cfe42daa84f01fa5b016e26%2Fgettyimages-2275509958.jpg)](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/10/nx-s1-5817578/hantavirus-cruise-ship-nebraska-us-passengers) ### [National](https://www.npr.org/sections/national/) ### [U.S. cruise passengers arrive in the U.S. after one tests positive for hantavirus

Anger and resignation in Tenerife as hantavirus ship approaches

MV Hondius is arriving with the agreement of Madrid, but this has not prevented the far-right Vox party from trying to capitalise on the issue, drawing a comparison with the arrival of illegal migrants

Passengers from Hantavirus cruise ship enter isolation facility in Wirral

MV Hondius passengers from the Canary Islands to Manchester airport on Sunday evening. The evacuation of passengers of all nationalities will be completed on Monday, with flights arriving

Why the hantavirus outbreak is different from COVID-19

arrival from Spain’s Canary Islands concluded a complex operation in which 94 people were evacuated and repatriated to about 20 countries where they have entered a period of quarantine. Officials from the US Department

Worldwide race to trace passengers from hantavirus-hit cruise ship

MV Hondius as it sails to the Canary Islands, where they will be medically assessed before being able to travel home. Spanish authorities agreed to the move, but the Canary Islands' president has opposed

Hantavirus-hit cruise ship leaves Cape Verde after three evacuated

arrived in the Netherlands for treatment, operator Oceanwide Expeditions has said. A third passenger in a stable condition was on board an evacuation flight that has been delayed, the operator added. The MV Hondius

Australia charters flight to bring nationals home from hantavirus-stricken luxury cruise

MV Hondius, the ship at the [centre of the hantavirus outbreak](https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/may/09/how-hantavirus-turned-hondius-dream-cruise-into-tragedy), on a charter flight due to land in Perth on Tuesday. The ship, carrying 146 people, arrived at Tenerife, the largest

Spain’s Canary Islands brace for incoming hantavirus-stricken cruise ship

Canary Islands, where it plans to drop off 140 passengers and crew so they can be evacuated after weeks stranded at sea. The Dutch-flagged MV Hondius vessel, on which at least eight people fell