Rare hantavirus outbreak kills three on Atlantic cruise ship

Three passengers died from hantavirus infection aboard the cruise ship, and multiple others were hospitalized with serious illness requiring evacuation and intensive care.

On a voyage from the southern tip of Argentina toward the Canary Islands, the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius became the vessel through which one of the world's rarest viruses crossed oceans and borders. Three passengers died and several others fell gravely ill from the Andes strain of hantavirus — the only known variant capable of passing between human beings — before authorities even knew what they were facing. By the time a diagnosis was confirmed, the infected had already disembarked at remote ports and scattered across continents, turning a single fever at sea into an international health ev

Rare hantavirus outbreak kills three on Atlantic cruise ship

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