Also known as: the Hondius · MV Hondius cruise ship · hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius · Dutch-flagged MV Hondius · the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius
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The Standard
… In its first statement on the crisis, the vessel's operator Oceanwide Expeditions confirmed three deaths on board the MV Hondius, travelling across from Ushuaia in Argentina to Cape Verde off the coast of west Africa.Two died on board and one after disembarking the ship. …
Cape Verde bans passengers from cruise with suspected virus deathsCitizen Digital
… People from Spain, Britain and the United States are among 23 nationalities of the 149 people aboard the MV Hondius. …
Passengers isolating on cruise after Cape Verde ban over suspected virus deathsA Dutch cruise ship operated by Oceanwide Expeditions docked in Rotterdam Harbour with a skeleton crew after a hantavirus outbreak killed three passengers. The remaining crew faces weeks of quarantine, though the WHO has stressed that contagion from the virus is very rare despite its multi-week incubation period.
19 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →
A Dutch cruise ship operated by Oceanwide Expeditions docked in Rotterdam Harbour with a skeleton crew after a hantavirus outbreak killed three passengers. The remaining crew faces weeks of quarantine, though the WHO has stressed that contagion from the virus is very rare despite its multi-week incubation period.
19 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →
Six passengers—four Australians, a British resident of Australia, and a New Zealander—who were aboard a hantavirus-affected cruise ship are flying from the Netherlands to Australia on Thursday. They are in good health, show no symptoms, and have tested negative for the virus; they will arrive in Perth on Friday and quarantine for at least three weeks.
14 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →
The Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius, which suffered a deadly hantavirus outbreak that killed three people, sailed to the Netherlands after its last passengers disembarked in Spain's Canary Islands, with at least seven confirmed and one probable case among evacuees.
12 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →
Eighteen people, including Americans and one British dual national who were passengers aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius, are being monitored in US medical facilities for hantavirus, with one testing positive for the Andes strain. Three people have died and others have contracted the rare disease, which is typically tied to rodents; passengers were evacuated from the ship in the Spanish Canary Islands on Sunday.
12 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →
Three new positive hantavirus cases linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship have been confirmed by health authorities as the final six passengers disembarked. Three passengers who travelled on the ship have died, with two laboratory-confirmed as hantavirus infections, though global and African health authorities report no evidence of local transmission in Africa and say public health risk remains low.
12 May 2026 · The Standard →
A deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship has revived memories of Covid-19, but health experts emphasize the two viruses are very different and have sought to assuage pandemic fears. Unlike Covid, hantavirus is not a new pathogen; it was first described among soldiers in the Korean War in the early 1950s.
11 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →
Australia will place six people from a cruise ship struck with hantavirus in a purpose-built quarantine facility near Perth for at least three weeks. The passengers—four Australian citizens, one permanent resident, and a New Zealander—are being repatriated from Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands.
11 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →
A French national developed hantavirus symptoms on a chartered flight repatriating five evacuees from the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius to Paris. Three passengers have died from the outbreak, two confirmed with the virus, and more than 90 tourists are being ferried home with evacuees placed in strict isolation.
11 May 2026 · Capital News →
A deadly hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius has prompted WHO to recommend quarantining and isolating nearly 150 people classified as "high-risk" contacts for six weeks to limit transmission of the rare virus, for which there is no vaccine or treatment.
11 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →
A US citizen aboard the Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius has tested positive for hantavirus. Three passengers—a Dutch couple and a German woman—have died from the virus, which is rare and endemic in Argentina where the ship departed in April; health officials say global public health risk is low and no vaccines or specific treatments exist.
11 May 2026 · The Standard →
A plane carrying 26 passengers and crew evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius landed in the Netherlands on Sunday, with passengers appearing to be in good health and disembarking without assistance. All passengers will be in quarantine for around...
10 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →
Passengers and crew from the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius, which experienced a hantavirus outbreak that killed three passengers, began returning home from Spain's Canary Islands on Sunday. Health officials said the global public health risk is low and stressed there are no vaccines or specific treatments for the rare disease, which usually spreads among rodents.
10 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →
British military personnel conducted an airborne operation to deliver medical support for a suspected Hantavirus patient on Tristan da Cunha. A team of six paratroopers and two military clinicians from the 16 Air Assault Brigade parachuted from an RAF A400M aircraft with oxygen supplies and other medical aid.
10 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →
Evacuation of the MV Hondius began on Sunday in Spain's Canary Islands after a hantavirus outbreak killed three passengers (a Dutch couple and a German woman) and sickened others. Health officials said the risk to global public health is low, and the final evacuation flight to Australia is scheduled for Monday.
10 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →
Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland, and the Netherlands are sending planes to evacuate their citizens from a Tenerife-bound cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak, with the EU providing two additional planes for remaining European citizens and the U.S. and UK arranging contingency transport for non-EU citizens.
10 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrived in Spain to oversee the safe disembarkation of passengers and crew from the MV Hondius cruise ship in the Canary Islands, where three passengers have died and others have fallen sick with hantavirus. The Andes virus strain, which can transmit person-to-person, has been confirmed among those who tested positive.
10 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →
The Dutch-flagged MV Hondius, carrying nearly 150 people and hit by a hantavirus outbreak that has killed three passengers, is expected to reach the Canary Islands, where most aboard will be evacuated and flown home. The Andes virus, the only hantavirus type that can transmit person-to-person, has been confirmed among those who tested positive.
9 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →
Kenya has stepped up surveillance and preparedness measures following a reported outbreak of Andes strain Hantavirus linked to a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, with eight cases including three deaths reported aboard MV Hondius. Health authorities say no case has been confirmed locally but have placed digital surveillance systems and laboratory networks on high alert, with counties directed to prepare isolation centres and intensify public sensitization campaigns.
9 May 2026 · Capital News →
The World Health Organization's director general will travel to Tenerife on Saturday to help coordinate the evacuation of passengers aboard the MV Hondius, where three people have died and others have fallen sick with hantavirus, including the person-to-person transmissible Andes virus strain.
9 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →
Kenya's Ministry of Health has issued a public health advisory after the World Health Organization reported eight confirmed hantavirus cases, including three deaths, aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius in the Atlantic Ocean as of May 7. The Ministry said there are currently no reported cases in Kenya and the risk to the public remains low.
8 May 2026 · Capital News →
The Ministry of Health has activated enhanced screening at airports and seaports and alerted hospitals following a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, though no cases have been reported in Kenya and the risk to the public is assessed as low.
8 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →
The WHO has said an outbreak of hantavirus on the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius is not the start of a pandemic, as the virus spreads through close, intimate contact unlike Covid-19. Five of eight suspected cases have been confirmed with three deaths, and the WHO documented person-to-person transmission for the first time.
8 May 2026 · Capital News →
The World Health Organization said more hantavirus cases may emerge from a cruise ship outbreak that has killed three passengers, but expects the outbreak to remain "limited" if precautions are taken. Five confirmed and three suspected cases have been reported overall from the MV Hondius, including three deaths from the rare, human-to-human transmissible Andes virus strain.
8 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →
The World Health Organization said more hantavirus cases could emerge after three cruise ship passengers died, though it expected the outbreak to remain limited if precautions were taken. Health officials scrambled to trace the outbreak of a human-to-human transmissible strain on the MV Hondius vessel, with authorities noting the virus is less contagious than Covid-19.
8 May 2026 · The Standard →
A former passenger from a cruise ship with a deadly hantavirus outbreak is being treated in a Zurich hospital after returning from South America in late April. The MV Hondius cruise ship has been at the centre of an international alert with three confirmed hantavirus cases linked to the vessel, including one fatality.
6 May 2026 · The Standard →
Emergency crews evacuated three people suspected of hantavirus infection from the cruise ship MV Hondius off Cape Verde on Wednesday, according to the World Health Organization. The rare strain can be transmitted between humans, and the evacuees will be flown to the Netherlands for treatment.
6 May 2026 · The Standard →
A cruise ship struck by hantavirus off Cape Verde evacuated three people — two sick crew members and one contact — to Europe via medical flights. The WHO chief said the outbreak, which has killed three people, is not comparable to the Covid pandemic.
6 May 2026 · The Standard →
Three people have died after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius in the Atlantic Ocean, with at least one other passenger in intensive care in South Africa and five additional suspected cases under investigation, according to a World Health Organisation announcement.
5 May 2026 · The Standard →
The MV Hondius, with 147 people on board, is seeking a port after a suspected hantavirus outbreak left three dead and five others with suspected cases. The WHO said the ship would head to Spain's Canary Islands, with two crew members requiring urgent evacuation potentially to the Netherlands.
5 May 2026 · The Standard →
Three people have died on the cruise ship MV Hondius in the Atlantic, with the WHO confirming one laboratory-confirmed case of hantavirus and five additional suspected cases. The ship was travelling from Argentina to Cape Verde, and one patient is in intensive care in South Africa.
4 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →