Three dead in suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard Atlantic cruise ship

Three passengers died from hantavirus infection; one 69-year-old British national in intensive care; a husband and wife aged 70 and 69 among the deceased.

In the vast and isolating expanse of the Atlantic Ocean, a Dutch polar cruise vessel became the setting for a rare and deadly encounter with hantavirus, a pathogen more commonly associated with rodent-infested landscapes than the open sea. Three passengers have died, including a husband and wife believed to be Dutch nationals, and at least one more fights for life in a Johannesburg hospital. The outbreak aboard the MV Hondius reminds us that the boundaries between wilderness and civilization are more porous than we imagine — and that the confined world of a ship at sea can become, without warn

Three dead in suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard Atlantic cruise ship

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