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 →
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 →