Hantavirus Cruise

• Health officials addressed a hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship, announcing the return of 18 Americans evacuated to Nebraska for quarantine on May 11, 2026. • Adm. Brian Christine, assistant secretary for health, stated 'the risk of hantavirus to the general public remains very, very low,' noting the Andes variant requires prolonged close contact like sharing utensils or 15 minutes within six feet of symptomatic individuals. • Most evacuees are monitored at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the nation's only federal quarantine unit and a leading high-risk infectious disease facility.

Health minister Mark Butler says six people from MC Hondius plus flight crew from charter plane to be isolated for weeksFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralians and New Zealanders who were aboard the deadly hantavirus-hit cruise ship will undergo the first three weeks of their quarantine at the Bullsbrook national resilience centre, just outside Perth.The flight crew that brings them back to the country will have to join them, Australia’s health minister, Mark Butler, said. Continue reading...

Twenty people from MV Hondius cruise spend first day living in self-contained flats in MerseysidePassengers evacuated to the UK from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak are spending their first day at an isolation facility after being repatriated from Tenerife.A chartered Titan Airways flight transported the 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 from Australia and the Netherlands, Spain’s health minister has said. Continue reading...

Four Australian citizens and one permanent resident from the MV Hondius to fly home via Perth on TuesdayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia will repatriate four citizens and one permanent resident from the MV Hondius, the ship at the centre of the hantavirus outbreak, on a charter flight due to land in Perth on Tuesday.The ship, carrying 146 people, arrived at Tenerife, the largest of Spain’s Canary Islands, on Sunday morning after three people died of the virus and eight others became ill. Passengers and crew were confined to their cabins to help stop the spread of the virus. Continue reading...

• An Andes hantavirus outbreak has been confirmed aboard an Atlantic cruise ship, with seven Americans who were passengers now returning to their homes in Arizona, Georgia, California, Texas, and Virginia. • The acting CDC director Jay Bhattacharya stated that US health agencies are equipped to handle the hantavirus response and have been coordinating closely with international partners to contain the outbreak. • New Jersey has joined a growing list of US states now monitoring for hantavirus cases related to the cruise ship incident, expanding surveillance across multiple regions.

The 17 passengers are set to be transferred to a special quarantine center in Nebraska to ‘assess them for risk’The 17 Americans onboard the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship M/V Hondius were being repatriated to the United States on Sunday after the vessel docked in Tenerife and all the passengers were evacuated.Upon their arrival in Spain, medical teams from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were waiting and interviewed the passengers, whose identities have not been publicly disclosed and who have not tested positive for the virus, about their exposure on the cruise. Continue reading...

Spanish health officials says all 146 passengers remain asymptomatic as vessel arrives in Tenerife waters Good morning, and welcome to our Europe live blog. Spanish health ​officials have said all the passengers on the ‌hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius remain asymptomatic after the vessel arrived in Tenerife on Sunday, almost a month after the first passenger died of the rodent-borne disease on board the ship.“The anchoring has been a success despite all the difficulties,” the health minister, Mónica García, said after intensive preparations to receive the ship in the port of Granadilla were carried out over recent days.Vladimir Putin has said he thinks the Ukraine war is winding down, adding that he was ready to meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a third country only once all conditions for a potential peace agreement were settled.The pro-European centre-right leader Péter Magyar has been sworn in as prime minister of Hungary, marking the official end to Viktor Orbán’s 16 years in power.The king of Denmark asked a centre-right politician to try to form a new government after the prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, failed to put together a ruling coalition. Continue reading...

MV Hondius anchors offshore carrying 146 people as authorities scramble to get planes to take them homeThe cruise ship at the centre of a deadly outbreak of hantavirus has arrived in Tenerife for the evacuation of those onboard.The ship 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. Continue reading...

• At least six US states—California, Georgia, Virginia, Arizona, Texas, and New Jersey—are tracking nine residents who disembarked from the MV Hondius cruise ship amid a deadly hantavirus outbreak overseas. • Health officials report no symptoms among the monitored Americans, including two each in Texas, New Jersey, and Georgia, and one each in California, Virginia, and Arizona; 30 people total left the ship late last month before the outbreak was confirmed. • State spokespeople like California's Brian Micek and Georgia's Nancy Nydam Shirek emphasize coordination with CDC and low public risk, with self-monitoring via daily temperature checks in Texas.

US CDC personnel are reportedly meeting ship in Canary Islands to accompany Americans on a flight to NebraskaThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reportedly sending personnel to the Canary Islands to meet the cruise ship affected by the hantavirus outbreak, with plans to accompany American passengers back to the US on a chartered flight and place them into quarantine in Nebraska.An additional CDC team is already headed to Nebraska, according to unnamed sources who spoke with CNN. The sources indicated that passengers are expected to undergo quarantine measures there to help prevent any possible spread of the virus. Nebraska is home to both the federally supported National Quarantine Unit and the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit. Continue reading...

‘Unprecedented operation’ under way to receive MV Hondius off Tenerife to assess and repatriate those onboardThe Spanish authorities are finalising preparations for the arrival of the MV Hondius this weekend, saying an “unprecedented operation” is under way to receive, assess and repatriate the 149 passengers and crew members onboard the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship.The Dutch-flagged vessel, which was sailing from Argentina to Cape Verde, is due to arrive off the Canary island of Tenerife at around midday on Sunday. Continue reading...

Patient remains in south Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, say health officials, as vessel heads to Tenerife Explainer: What is hantavirus?A third British national has been diagnosed with suspected hantavirus linked to a cruise ship outbreak, health officials have said.The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) had already confirmed two cases among British nationals, who are in hospitals in the Netherlands and South Africa. It said a third has been reported on the south Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, where the patient remains. Continue reading...

• A hantavirus outbreak struck a cruise ship, sickening multiple passengers and prompting health alerts. • HHS is addressing allegations of overmedication with SSRIs alongside the infectious disease response. • The incident highlights rare but severe risks of rodent-borne viruses in confined travel settings.

Argentina, where the MV Hondius cruise departed, consistently ranked by WHO as having highest incidence of hantavirus in regionOfficials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to determine if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise ship, amid reports that a number of passengers have already returned to their home countries.Argentina, where the cruise to Antarctica departed, is consistently ranked by the World Health Organization (WHO) as having the highest incidence of the rare, rodent-borne disease in Latin America. Investigators there are working to contact trace the source of contamination. Continue reading...

Several sick crew members are to be medically evacuated from vessel, as Canary Islands government objects to docking plans. Plus: the Mexico City nightclub that charges Americans 90% moreGood morning.Several crew members on the MV Hondius are being prepared for medical evacuation to the Netherlands, as the cruise ship continues to be marooned off the coast of Cape Verde following a suspected hantavirus outbreak that is believed to have killed at least three passengers.What is hantavirus? It is a rare disease that is usually spread from infected rodents typically through urine, droppings and saliva.What is the plan for the ship? It planned to sail to Spain’s Canary Islands, where the Spanish health ministry would work alongside the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and World Health Organization to examine and treat the crew and passengers before repatriating them to their respective countries.On Wednesday, the Canary Islands government said it opposed the plan and was requesting a meeting with the Spanish prime minister over it.What did Project Freedom achieve? The defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, said the US had successfully secured a path through the waterway and that hundreds of commercial ships were lining up to pass through. So far, however, only two merchant ships are known to have passed through, with hundreds more – carrying up to 23,000 crew members – bottled up in the Persian Gulf.What is the US end game? Rubio said that for peace to be achieved, Iran must agree to Trump’s demands on its nuclear program and to open the strait.This is a developing story. Follow the live blog here. Continue reading...

Andes strain the cause of infection in two cases, says South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable DiseasesEurope live – latest updatesWhat is hantavirus?A luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak and marooned for days off the coast of Cape Verde with close to 150 people onboard was due to head to Spain, while South Africa confirmed it had identified among the victims a strain of the virus that can – in rare cases – spread among humans.The Swiss government said a man who returned to Switzerland after being a passenger on the MV Hondius was infected with the hantavirus and was being treated in Zurich. It said there was no danger to the broader population. Continue reading...

Briton to be evacuated from MV Hondius with Dutch colleague, after both began suffering respiratory symptomsWhat is hantavirus, the infection thought to have killed three on cruise ship?A British crew member who became ill after a suspected outbreak of hantavirus on a luxury cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean is to be medically evacuated, officials have said.The crew member is being prepared for medical evacuation from the MV Hondius along with a Dutch colleague, with Dutch authorities overseeing the operation. The two crew members needed “urgent medical care” after experiencing respiratory symptoms, the tour operator Oceanwide Expeditions said. Continue reading...

MV Hondius remains off the coast of Cape Verde after a suspected respiratory virus outbreak killed three people and left three more seriously ill. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGood morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it will be Stephanie Convery with the main action.Mortgage holders are set to be hundreds of dollars worse off per month than they were at the start of the year as the Reserve Bank prepares to unload a third consecutive interest rate hike on borrowers. More coming up. Continue reading...

Officials say they will not authorise docking ‘to protect public health’ after deaths of three passengers on vesselWhat is hantavirus, the infection thought to have killed three on cruise ship?Officials in Cape Verde have said they will not allow a cruise ship believed to be harbouring an outbreak of a rare respiratory virus to dock in its ports, after the deaths of three passengers onboard.The statement on Monday came hours after global health officials said they were scrambling to investigate the suspected outbreak of hantavirus, a disease primarily found in rodents, on the cruise ship in the Atlantic. Continue reading...

Further three people taken ill, including 69-year-old Briton reported to be in intensive care in South AfricaThree people have died after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship sailing in the Atlantic.One case of hantavirus infection had been confirmed and there were five additional suspected cases, the World Health Organization told Agence France-Presse on Sunday. Continue reading...