The World Health Organization confirmed on May 14 that 11 hantavirus cases remain linked to the Hondius Cruise, reporting 3 deaths and a 27% fatality rate while maintaining that the global health risk remains low amid continued international monitoring. Of the total cases, eight were laboratory-confirmed as an infection by the Andes variant, two are […]

Italy imposes strict monitoring measures as more possible cases are investigated. On Tuesday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director of the World Health Organization (WHO), said that 10 hantavirus cases associated with the MV Hondius cruise ship had been confirmed as of May 12. RELATED: U.S. Cruise’s Passengers Arrives to Nebraska Under Strict Hantavirus Vigilance The U.S. […]

Seventeen U.S. citizens, who were onboard the MV Hondius cruise ship, arrived on May 11 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. The group of seventeen repatriated U.S. citizens includes one suspected positive case of Hantavirus, while two individuals were flown to Atlanta for further evaluation and medical attention. These individuals were part […]

Spain has launched a multinational evacuation effort after a hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius killed three people and prompted international tracing operations.

Canada and the United States expanded quarantine and monitoring measures after a hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship.

The Spanish Government, collaborating with the World Health Organization and 22 countries, launched an unprecedented sanitary operation to receive the MV Hondius cruise ship next Sunday, for passenger repatriation and isolation under strict biosecurity measures. This intricate plan orchestrates the immediate repatriation of all foreign nationals and implements strict isolation protocols for Spanish citizens on […]

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed hope Thursday that the ongoing hantavirus outbreak will convince the United States and Argentina to reverse their departures from the agency. Tedros stressed that pathogens do not heed political divisions, national borders, or justifications for disengagement, and insisted that solidarity remains the strongest defense against infectious threats. […]

The World Health Organization today ensures the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship is contained, with five confirmed cases and three deaths, stressing it poses no global pandemic threat. The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) declared on May 7, that the hantavirus outbreak detected on the MV Hondius expedition cruise ship lacks global epidemic […]

Meanwhile, two patients evacuated from the cruise ship Hondius remained aboard a grounded air ambulance in Canary Islands. On Thursday, the Dutch Health Ministry confirmed that a KLM flight attendant has been hospitalized with a possible hantavirus infection. RELATED: Hantavirus Outbreak Linked to Cruise Ship Leaves Three Dead Dutch public broadcaster NOS reported that the […]

Follow-up measures have also been initiated for passengers still on board as well as those who have already disembarked. On Wednesday, World Health Organization (WHO) Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus confirmed that three suspected hantavirus patients have been evacuated from the cruise ship Hondius hit by a hantavirus outbreak and are being transported to the Netherlands […]