Three dead from hantavirus on cruise ship; early symptoms mimic flu

Three people died from hantavirus on the MV Hondius cruise ship, with a British national fighting for life in critical condition.

In the confined world of a ship at sea, where hundreds of lives share air and surface and space, a rodent-borne pathogen has claimed three lives aboard the MV Hondius sailing from Argentina toward Cape Verde. Hantavirus — a virus that wears the mask of ordinary flu until it does not — has reminded the world that nature's most dangerous emissaries are often its smallest, and that the line between a passing illness and respiratory collapse can be crossed without warning. A British national remains critically ill, and the outbreak has drawn the World Health Organization's attention to a vulnerabi

Three dead from hantavirus on cruise ship; early symptoms mimic flu

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