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Oceanwide Expeditions’ CEO says available medical and epidemiological data strongly suggest the hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius was introduced before embarkation and did not originate on the ship. WHO confirms 11 related cases and 3 deaths; the ship is undergoing full cleaning and sanitization, with crew quarantines and a crew transition ahead of resuming service as investigations continue.
The MV Hondius, at the center of a hantavirus outbreak, is set to arrive in the Port of Rotterdam to disembark the remaining crew and undergo disinfection, after a Canadian passenger tested positive for Andes hantavirus; the process will be coordinated with health authorities and the ship is expected to resume expeditions once cleaning is complete.
The hantavirus-struck Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius will decide by the end of the week whether it will resume sailing; the vessel is heading to Rotterdam for a thorough disinfection after evacuating more than 120 people, with nine confirmed and two suspected hantavirus cases reported. Oceanwide Expeditions had said it would await official authorization before resuming operations, with a May 29 Arctic cruise and other itineraries potentially affected.
The U.S. and several other countries are tracing roughly 29–40 passengers who disembarked the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius at St. Helena before the hantavirus outbreak was detected. Eight people are sick (five confirmed, three suspected) with three confirmed deaths from the Andes strain. WHO says transmission is not like COVID and cautions against panic; there is no approved medical countermeasure. The ship is moving toward the Canary Islands as authorities coordinate disembarkation and onward travel guidance, while U.S. travelers in California, Georgia, and Arizona are being monitored.
Three people have died and four are sick aboard the Dutch expedition ship Hondius, currently under lockdown off Cape Verde with about 150 passengers and 61 crew. Authorities are coordinating medical evacuations as two crew members show respiratory symptoms; a British passenger is in ICU in Johannesburg and a Dutch woman died after disembarking with her husband, who also fell ill. The WHO says the global health risk is low and no travel restrictions are needed; disembarkation and repatriation plans are being considered, potentially via the Canary Islands. Hantaviruses are usually rodent-borne with limited human-to-human transmission.
A suspected hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius has killed three people, with one confirmed case and five more suspected; a British national remains in intensive care. The ship, sailing from Ushuaia to Cape Verde, had the first symptoms in a 70-year-old passenger who died aboard, and authorities including the WHO are investigating.