Cruise ship outbreak prompts medics to evacuate two suspected hantavirus cases

7 articles · Updated · Reuters · May 4

Around 150 people remain aboard MV Hondius off Cape Verde after three deaths, while a British passenger with confirmed hantavirus is being treated in South Africa.
Cape Verde has barred the Dutch-flagged ship from docking, and operator Oceanwide Expeditions is exploring screening and disembarkation in Las Palmas or Tenerife.
WHO said wider public risk is low because hantavirus, usually linked to rodent exposure, rarely spreads between people, while investigators still seek the source of infection.

Does this fatal outbreak at sea expose critical gaps in health safety protocols for extreme expedition cruises?

Was the deadly hantavirus outbreak sourced on the ship, or brought aboard by a passenger from South America?