Spain evacuates hantavirus cruise ship passengers to Madrid as deaths mount

Three deaths confirmed from hantavirus outbreak; five passengers infected; one suspected case in remote Tristan da Cunha; 140+ passengers and crew evacuated and quarantined.

In the waters off Tenerife, a cruise ship became an unlikely vessel for one of the rarer fears of modern medicine — a virus that ordinarily passes from rodent to human, but in this strain, may pass between people. Three lives have already been lost to the Andes variant of hantavirus aboard the MV Hondius, and on Sunday, May 10th, Spain began the careful work of dispersing more than 140 passengers and crew from over twenty nations into quarantine, each country summoned to retrieve its own. The operation — spanning military hospitals in Madrid, remote volcanic islands in the South Atlantic, and

Spain evacuates hantavirus cruise ship passengers to Madrid as deaths mount

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