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Spain Confirms Preliminary Positive Hantavirus Test in MV Hondius Evacuee

May 12, 2026 revoi editor

New Delhi: One of the 14 Spanish nationals evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius has preliminarily tested positive for the virus, Spanish Health Minister Monica Garcia said on Sunday. Garcia wrote on X on Monday (local time) that one of the Spanish passengers currently under isolation at Madrid’s Gomez Ulla hospital had tested […]

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Hantavirus Alert: Dutch Hospital Places 12 Staff Members in Quarantine

May 12, 2026 revoi editor

New Delhi: Radboud University Medical Center (Radboudumc) in the Netherlands has placed 12 employees in quarantine for six weeks as a precaution after incorrect procedures were followed while caring for a patient infected with hantavirus. The hospital said on Monday that the issue involved procedures for drawing and processing blood samples, as well as the […]

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Two test positive as evacuation of virus-hit cruise ship nears completion

May 11, 2026 revoi editor

New Delhi:Two people have tested positive for hantavirus after being evacuated from a luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak, health authorities said, as Spain prepared on Monday to evacuate and repatriate the last passengers remaining on the vessel. A French passenger who was evacuated from the MV Hondius tested positive for the virus […]

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Australia to fly citizens home from virus-hit cruise ship, plans quarantine

May 11, 2026 revoi editor

New Delhi: Australia will charter a flight to evacuate its citizens from a Dutch-flagged luxury cruise ship linked to a deadly hantavirus outbreak, with returning passengers quarantined on arrival, the government said on Monday. Eight people no longer on the MV Hondius have fallen ill, according to a World Health Organization tally from Friday, of which six are confirmed to have contracted the virus. Three have died, a Dutch couple and […]

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One US citizen tests mildly positive for hantavirus, another has mild symptoms

May 11, 2026 revoi editor

New Delhi: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Sunday that one of the 17 Americans being repatriated from a hantavirus-struck luxury cruise ship has tested mildly positive for the Andes strain of the virus while a second has mild symptoms. All the U.S. citizens are being airlifted to the United States, […]

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Australia to repatriate passengers from Hantavirus-hit cruise ship

May 11, 2026 revoi editor

New Delhi: The Australian government said on Monday it would repatriate its citizens from a Dutch-flagged luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly strain of hantavirus, with the passengers to be quarantined after they arrive in the country. Spain and France have evacuated their citizens from the MV Hondius, which has anchored near Tenerife, the […]

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Two suspected hantavirus cases found in Spain, remote Tristan da Cunha

May 9, 2026 revoi editor

New Delhi: Health experts raced to contain a potential spread of hantavirus as two suspected cases emerged on Friday far from the luxury cruise liner where the outbreak started. The latest reports involved a man who fell ill after leaving the ship and a woman who became sick after sitting near an infected cruise passenger […]

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New hantavirus case suspected on remote island as contact tracing continues

May 8, 2026 revoi editor

New Delhi: A new suspected case of hantavirus was identified in a British national on the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha on Friday, as efforts continue to trace passengers of the luxury cruise ship hit by the virus and their immediate contacts. The British health security agency did not disclose further details of […]

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Five hantavirus infections detected on Atlantic cruise vessel; WHO issues low-risk assurance

May 8, 2026 revoi editor

Geneva [Switzerland]: The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed five instances of hantavirus linked to fatalities on a cruise vessel currently navigating the Atlantic Ocean. In addition to the confirmed cases, three further individuals are suspected of carrying the Andes strain of the virus. Despite the severity of the situation, the global health body maintains […]

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Hantavirus-hit cruise ship heads to Spain after three people evacuated

May 7, 2026 revoi editor

New Delhi: A luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak and marooned since Sunday off the coast of Cape Verde left for Spain on Wednesday, a Reuters witness said, after three people, two of them seriously ill, were evacuated. The MV Hondius, with nearly 150 people on board, is expected to dock in […]