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90-Second Read: Hantavirus-hit cruise ship docks in Spain; passengers disembark
The MV Hondius, the cruise ship stricken with a Hantavirus outbreak, is evacuating its nearly 150 passengers in the Spanish island Tenerife on Sunday. May 10 (UPI) -- A cruise ship stricken with a Hantavirus outbreak is evacuating its nearly 150 passengers in the Spanish island Tenerife on Sunday. Three cruise ship passengers have died from Hantavirus infection, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. The MV Hondius docked in Tenerife Sunday morning to begin evacuating passengers who will be sent to their home countries. Before being released from the ship, passengers were screened for symptoms and all were asymptomatic.
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90-Second Read: Hantavirus on small cruise ship may have been spread by human contact
The deaths of three people aboard a small cruise ship during a suspected outbreak of Hantavirus demonstrate the potential deadliness of the rodent-borne illness. Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: The deaths of three people aboard a small cruise ship during a suspected outbreak of Hantavirus demonstrate the potential deadliness of the rodent-borne illness. The Hantavirus cluster on the MV Hondius cruise ship is suspected to also be a rare case of human-to-human transmission. Once somebody gets sick, once somebody comes in contact with Hantavirus, they can develop severe illness fairly quickly," said Neil Maniar, director of Northeastern's master of public health program. Caused by contact with urine, feces or saliva from certain species of rats or mice, Hantavirus occurs across the globe, says the.
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90-Second Read: Hantavirus Cruise Ship: Passengers Begin Disembarking (Live Updates)
The remaining passengers on the Hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius began disembarking on Spain's Canary Islands on Sunday morning, the World Health Organization and cruise ship operators said, as officials direct the travelers to planes taking them to their home countries. Ghebreyesus says none of the remaining passengers or crew aboard the MV Hondius are symptomatic, but that "it is possible more cases will be reported" because it can be up to six weeks before those infected with the Andes variant of Hantavirus show symptoms. Most people will never be exposed to this." The World Health Organization confirms the number of lab-proven Hantavirus cases has risen to five and there are still at least three additional suspected cases among cruise ship passengers and crew. Sunday, May 10, 2026 The passengers and a.
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90-Second Read: Evacuations of passengers from Hantavirus-stricken cruise begins in Spain
TENERIFE, Canary Islands (AP) — The first plane carrying passengers from the Hantavirus-hit cruise ship left Spain's Canary Islands on Sunday for Madrid, where they will be taken to a military hospital. None of the more than 140 people on the Hondius has shown symptoms of the virus, Spain's health ministry, the World Health Organization and cruise company Oceanwide Expeditions said. Three people have died since the outbreak, and five passengers who left the ship are infected with Hantavirus, which can cause life-threatening illness. Authorities have said the passengers and crew members disembarking will be checked for symptoms, have no contact with the local population and will only be taken off the ship once evacuation flights are ready to fly them to their destinations. But the Andes virus detected in.
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90-Second Read: Passengers disembarking after Hantavirus-hit cruise ship arrives in Tenerife
The cruise ship at the center of the Hantavirus outbreak has arrived at the Spanish island of Tenerife, where its 147 passengers are expected to disembark. Passengers have begun to disembark the cruise ship at the center of the Hantavirus outbreak, Spain's ministry of health said, in a carefully managed repatriation operation involving multiple nations. The Hantavirus outbreak was first reported to the World Health Organization on May 2 and remains a low risk to the general public, the WHO said. Maria Van Kerkhove further explains Hantavirus outbreak: 'This is not COVID' The vessel, MV Hondius, had earlier Sunday morning docked at the Spanish Island of Tenerife carrying 147 people. Passengers were seen being ferried in small boats from the cruise ship anchored at the Port of Granadilla to the.
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90-Second Read: Here's the CDC's plan as Hantavirus-hit cruise starts evacuation process
A cruise ship with over 140 passengers on board, including more than a dozen Americans, is being evacuated after a Hantavirus outbreak that has resulted in three deaths. A cruise ship carrying more than 140 passengers, including over a dozen Americans, started evacuations on Sunday following a Hantavirus outbreak that has claimed three lives so far. No one on board is currently showing symptoms, but five passengers who previously left the ship have been infected with Hantavirus. Passengers wearing protective gear started disembarking in small boats after the cruise ship anchored off Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands. Hantavirus is not set up to cause a pandemic the way that COVID was, at this point, and there's nothing to suggest that it is on the way to doing that," former CDC.
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90-Second Read: Hantavirus-hit ship starts unloading passengers for quarantine: Live updates
The cruise ship at the center of a Hantavirus outbreak arrived in Spain on Sunday, and officials started the process of moving groups of passengers back to their home countries to begin quarantining. The WHO has recommended a 42-day quarantine period for passengers aboard the ship starting from Sunday, and has assessed the virus' risk to the public is low. The overall risk to the general public remains low, as Hantaviruses do not spread easily like respiratory viruses such as flu or COVID-19. The passengers, who are not showing any symptoms of the virus, will board a flight back to Madrid on a Spanish military plane. The World Heath Organization said Friday that eight people had fallen ill in cases linked to the ship, including three who died − a.
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90-Second Read: Lessons from COVID can inform the psychology of a new public health issue.
Understanding the psychology of disaster-related anxiety and trauma is vital as we face a new public health threat. So, while being aware of the latest information on a new public health issue is important, being fixated on it can increase discomfort and worsen anxiety. As devastating and catastrophic as the COVID-19 pandemic was, we learned some important psychological lessons from it that can help us navigate a new public-health issue in an emotionally healthy way. Recently, news has come out about Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, a virus that, though different from COVID-19, poses a similarly serious risk to those infected. We need to clarify that, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Hantavirus infections are uncommon and are linked to specific environmental exposures whereas COVID-19 quickly became a global pandemic.
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90-Second Read: Could Contact-Tracing Apps Help With the Hantavirus? Not Really
There is no use of apps for this Hantavirus outbreak," Emily Gurley, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, wrote in an email response to WIRED. Contact tracing also struggled to maintain accuracy, and in some cases could be providing false negatives or positives that don't help further real information about the spread of the virus. Especially in the case of something like the Hantavirus, where every person on that cruise ship can theoretically be directly tracked and contacted, it's better to do that process the hard way. Contact-tracing apps were widely deployed during the Covid pandemic. After three people died on a cruise ship struck by a Hantavirus, authorities are actively tracking down 29 people who had left the ship.
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