Cruise ship’s hantavirus outbreak puts researchers in uncharted territory
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The tourists of the MV Hondius cruise that since the last weekend are isolated by the outbreak of hantavirus already have final destination to their trip. As confirmed on Tuesday night by the Spanish Ministry of Health, the ship will dock in the Canary Islands, where the “tripulation and passengers will be conveniently examined, attended and transferred to their respective countries.” Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) continues to t…
Buenos Aires (Argentina), 6 May 2026 (AFP) – The deceased Dutch couple, passengers of the ship affected by a hantavirus outbreak, travelled several months between Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and again Argentina at the end of March, announced on Wednesday the Argentine health authorities, without advancing at this stage of hypothesis on a scenario of contamination. [...] The article Hantavirus: the deceased Dutch couple travelled between Chile, Uru…
The Argentine Ministry of Health plans to capture rodents near the southern city of Ushuaia, the location where one or more passengers from the cruise ship MV Hondius may have contracted the hantavirus. The Argentine authorities want to examine the rodents in their search for the origin of the virus.
If the Hantavirus virus does not pose a pandemic risk, according to experts, its presence on board a cruise ship, where three deaths are to be regretted, raises many questions.
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