Canary Islands Leader Rejects Hantavirus-Hit Cruise Ship Heading to Tenerife
Spain is weighing evacuation and inspection plans as the outbreak has killed three passengers and sickened at least four others, officials said.
- The MV Hondius cruise ship has experienced a hantavirus outbreak resulting in three deaths and seven infected passengers and crew members; it is currently anchored off Cape Verde and plans to sail to the Canary Islands in three to four days for medical evacuation and screening.
- The regional government of the Canary Islands opposes allowing the MV Hondius to dock due to insufficient information and public safety concerns, requesting an urgent meeting with Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
- The World Health Organization is investigating possible human-to-human transmission of hantavirus onboard, noting that the virus typically spreads through rodent excretions but may rarely spread between people and has initiated contact tracing efforts.
- Passengers are mostly confined to cabins under strict isolation with hygiene and medical protocols, while authorities coordinate evacuations, medical screenings, and safe repatriation efforts to contain the outbreak.
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In front of the main hospital in Tenerife, the issue is in everyone’s mind. Little known, the hantavirus remembers the coronavirus. Painful memories for the inhabitants of the island, who are thinking about the worst and are concerned about the medical staff. “There are no resources to put a population here, because then they are the people who are infected within the same hospital, without having to do with it. That’s my opinion and I say it co…
TENERIFE. This is where the virus ship Hondius will dock. Against the will of the local residents. – We are very angry, it is an unnecessary risk, says José Raul Perez Reyes, from the island.
Hantavirus cruise ship heads for Spain's Canary Islands as officials race to trace victims' contacts
The hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius on Thursday is en route to Spain's Canary Islands, as European and African authorities rush to trace anyone who may have come into contact with the virus.
The ship MV Hondius, with passengers and crew members confined to it because of a hantavirus outbreak, is en route to Tenerife in the Spanish archipelago of the Canary Islands where it is expected Saturday, before a passenger evacuation scheduled for early next week.
The "Hondius", on which passengers have been infected with the hantavirus, is on their way to Tenerife. Already before the confirmation of the first infection, 29 guests left the ship on the island of St. Helena.
It continues live the last hour on the outbreak of hantavirus on the luxury cruise ship MV Hondius, whose arrival in the Canary Islands is expected in the next hours. Foreign passengers will be transferred to their countries of origin, while the 14 Spaniards will be transferred to Madrid
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