Global health alert as countries trace cruise ship passengers after hantavirus deaths

Three people died from hantavirus infection aboard the cruise ship, including a Dutch couple and a German national; one passenger died during medical evacuation.

A pleasure voyage across the Atlantic has become a test of global public health coordination, as authorities on multiple continents race to locate roughly 40 passengers who disembarked from the MV Hondius before a hantavirus outbreak was detected near Cape Verde. Three people have died — a Dutch couple and a German national — and the Andean strain identified aboard the ship carries the rare and unsettling capacity to pass between humans through close contact. What began as a cruise has become a reminder that in an interconnected world, a virus does not respect the boundaries between leisure an

Global health alert as countries trace cruise ship passengers after hantavirus deaths

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