Three dead in suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard Atlantic cruise ship

Three people died from suspected hantavirus infection on the cruise ship, with two Dutch passengers and one British passenger confirmed deceased, and three others hospitalized.

In the vast and indifferent expanse of the Atlantic, a polar expedition vessel has become a vessel of grief — three lives lost to a virus that ordinarily moves silently among rodents, unseen and unconsidered by human travelers. The MV Hondius, carrying 150 passengers from Argentina, found itself anchored near Cape Verde with confirmed hantavirus deaths among its Dutch and British passengers, a reminder that the boundaries between the animal world and our own remain porous and unpredictable. With no cure and a fatality rate approaching 40 percent in its most severe form, the outbreak has drawn

Three dead in suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard Atlantic cruise ship

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