Deadly hantavirus outbreak spreads across cruise ship bound for Antarctica

Three passengers died from hantavirus infection, one remains in intensive care, and three others showed symptoms awaiting evacuation from the cruise ship.

In the vast solitude of the South Atlantic, a vessel meant to carry its passengers toward wonder instead became the site of a rare and bewildering tragedy. Over the course of weeks in April 2026, three people died aboard the Dutch expedition ship MV Hondius — victims of hantavirus, a disease almost never seen at sea — before anyone understood what was killing them. The outbreak, believed to have originated in South America before the voyage began, has prompted the World Health Organization to investigate not only the source, but the unsettling possibility that this rodent-borne virus may have

Deadly hantavirus outbreak spreads across cruise ship bound for Antarctica

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