Cruise ship staff held barbecue amid hantavirus outbreak, passenger claims

Three passengers died from hantavirus; one British passenger in intensive care in South Africa; one retired police officer in stable condition in Netherlands; dozens exposed at multiple ports.

Aboard the MV Hondius, a luxury expedition vessel now crossing toward the Canary Islands, three passengers have died and five cases of hantavirus have been confirmed — a disease that arrived quietly in early April and was not named until weeks later, by which time dozens had already dispersed across ports and continents. The ship has become a parable of the interval between event and recognition, the dangerous space where a virus moves freely while human institutions are still deciding what to call it. As health authorities race to trace those who disembarked at Saint Helena and beyond, the ve

Cruise ship staff held barbecue amid hantavirus outbreak, passenger claims

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