Tourist hotspot at 'end of the world' denies causing hantavirus outbreak

The BBC reports from the city of Ushuaia, where experts have been sent to investigate the origins of the outbreak.

Hantavirus: what happens to cruise ship passengers now and will they quarantine?

Up to 150 passengers and crew from Hantavirus-hit MV Hondius start flying home aboard military and government planes from Spain’s Canary Islands The complex operation to repatriate passengers and crew of the hantavirus-hit cruise ship, the MV Hondius, is almost complete. Up to 150 people have started flying home aboard military and government planes from Spain’s Canary Islands, and the World Health Organization has recommended, but not mandated, a 42-day quarantine once they have landed. Con...

By Mark Saunokonoko

Hantavirus outbreak sees 2 Indians quarantined in Netherlands: Why the virus’s long incubation matters

By Anonna Dutt

Cruise ship hantavirus outbreak triggers global evacuations and quarantines

Australia will charter a government-supported flight to evacuate its citizens from the Dutch-flagged luxury cruise ship MV Hondius, which has been linked to a deadly outbreak of the Andes strain of hantavirus, authorities said Monday. The outbreak has prompted a multinational evacuation effort involving Australia, the United States, Spain, France, the Netherlands and several other […]

Americans from virus-hit ship will not necessarily be quarantined: official

American passengers evacuated from a cruise ship struck by a deadly hantavirus outbreak will not necessarily be quarantined, a top US health official said Sunday. Jay Bhattacharya, acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also urged the US public to remain calm about the hantavirus, saying, "This is not COVID." The US announced Friday that it would organize a repatriation flight for the 17 Americans aboard the MV Hondius, where three passengers have died and others h

By The Korea Herald

Hantavirus ship evacuation nears completion as 94 flown home

Three passengers from the MV Hondius — a Dutch couple and a German woman — have died, while others have fallen sick with the rare disease, which usually spreads among rodents.

Hantavirus: Evacuation flights leave Tenerife after cruise ship virus outbreak

Groups of passengers and crew disembarked from a cruise ship hit by ​a deadly hantavirus outbreak on Sunday to be evacuated to their home countries, where they will isolate according to national protocols to prevent further spread of ‌the disease.

By Abubakar Ibrahim