‘Empty and vapid’ CDC finally responds to hantavirus outbreak. But experts say it’s too little, too late

World Health Organization – which the US left under Trump – has been leading the response to the cruise ship outbreak The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed it is sending a team to Spain’s Canary Islands, where the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius is expected to arrive on Sunday, and US passengers will be evacuated to an airbase in Nebraska. However, experts say the US is unprepared for such a disease threat. The CDCs limited role in responding to the han...

By Edward Helmore

Cruise ship dealing with hantavirus outbreak arrives at port in Spain's Canary Islands

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Singapore pair test negative for hantavirus after cruise ship outbreak

Two Singapore residents who had been on board a hantavirus-hit cruise ship have tested negative to the rare respiratory disease, according to Singapore’s Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA). The two men aged 65 and 67 had been on the MV Hondius and also the same flight as a confirmed hantavirus case from St Helena to Johannesburg on April 25, the CDA said a day earlier. The confirmed case did not travel to the city state and died in South Africa. The CDA’s National Public Health Laboratory...

By Agence France-Presse

Cruise ship hit by hantavirus outbreak arrives in Spain's Canary Islands

A cruise ship struck by a deadly hantavirus outbreak arrived in Spain's Canary Islands early on Sunday as Spanish authorities prepared a tightly controlled evacuation of hundreds of passengers, all deemed high-risk contacts after three people died and several others fell ill during the voyage.

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Cruise ship hit by hantavirus outbreak arrives in Tenerife, passengers considered high-risk

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrived on Saturday evening in Tenerife alongside Spain's interior and health ministers and its minister for territorial policy.

Virus-hit ship arrives in Tenerife ahead of evacuation

The cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak arrived early this morning near the Port of Granadilla in Tenerife where it will anchor for the evacuation of the passengers and some of the crew.

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Hantavirus-hit cruise ship arrives in Spain's Canary Islands

A cruise ship hit with a deadly hantavirus outbreak arrived in Spain's Canary Islands Sunday, where most of the nearly 150 people on board will be evacuated and flown home after weeks at sea.

By RFI

Hantavirus-hit cruise ship arrives in Spain's Canary Islands

Passengers and some of the crew are expected to evacuate before the ship continues on its way to the Netherlands.

Hantavirus-hit cruise ship arrives in Tenerife with passengers set to be repatriated

Two Irish people will be taken to an HSE facility when they arrive home and quarantine “for a period of time”, the Department of Health said.

NZers on cruise with hantavirus outbreak could face quarantine on return

It's believed only one New Zealander is on board the MV Hondius, which is docking in the Canary Islands in Spain on Sunday.

Cruise ship hit by hantavirus outbreak arrives in Tenerife

TENERIFE: The cruise ⁠ship ⁠hit by a deadly hantavirus ​outbreak arrived early on Sunday near the Port of Granadilla in Tenerife, ​Reuters footage showed, where it ‌will anchor for the evacuation of the passengers and some of the crew.

Hondius arrives at Tenerife for hantavirus evacuation; 29 to fly to Eindhoven

The Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius arrived early Sunday at anchor in the port of Granadilla de Abona on Tenerife, where Spanish authorities immediately began evacuating about 150 remaining pa

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Virus-hit cruise ship arrives in Tenerife as medics await passengers

Almost a month after the first passenger died of the hantavirus on board the MV Hondius cruise ship, it has finally reached Tenerife in the Canary Islands.

By David Apinga