U.S. Tracks Cruise Ship Hantavirus Passengers as Outbreak Spreads Internationally

Three people have died from hantavirus infection; at least five suspected infections and one additional possible case; hundreds of passengers and crew exposed.

Aboard the luxury expedition vessel Hondius, somewhere in the Atlantic, a rare and deadly pathogen has quietly crossed borders long before anyone thought to draw a line. Three people are dead from the Andes strain of hantavirus — a variant unusual among its kind for its capacity to pass between human beings — and the passengers who carried it home to a dozen countries had already scattered before the first alarm was raised. In the long history of infectious disease, this is a familiar and humbling pattern: the world moves faster than our awareness of what travels with us.

U.S. Tracks Cruise Ship Hantavirus Passengers as Outbreak Spreads Internationally

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