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Evacuation and Impact Statistics
Summary of current statistics following the MV Hondius hantavirus incident.
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Evacuated US and French MV Hondius passengers test positive for hantavirus
A French woman and an American national evacuated from the cruise ship at the centre of a deadly hantavirus outbreak have tested positive for the virus, as the complex operation to repatriate those onboard continued on Monday.The French woman was one of five French passengers who disembarked from the ship in Tenerife on Sunday before being flown to a hospital in Paris.The French health minister, Stéphanie Rist, said the woman was in a serious condition on Monday. Rist said the woman had started to feel very unwell on Sunday night and “tests came back positive”. Rist told France Inter radio: “Unfortunately, her symptoms worsened overnight.” She is being treated in a specialised infectious diseases unit of a hospital in Paris.An American passenger who was flown to Nebraska along with 16 others on Sunday evening also tested positive but had no symptoms. The US health department said one American national evacuated from the ship had tested positive for the Andes strain – the only hantavirus strain that is transmissible between humans – and another had “mild symptoms”.Personnel in full-body protective gear and breathing masks began escorting the travellers from ship to shore in Tenerife in the Canary Islands on Sunday, in an effort that was continuing on Monday. More than 100 people of 23 nationalities are being evacuated in less than 48 hours, in an operation described by Spanish authorities as “complex” and “unprecedented”.Passengers wearing blue protective suits board a military bus after being evacuated from the MV Hondius. Photograph: Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty ImagesSpain’s health ministry said on Monday that “all possible measures had been adopted from the start in order to cut possible chains of transmission”, adding that passengers underwent a health check and had their temperatures taken when the ship arrived off Tenerife on Sunday.It also said the French woman who had developed a fever on the evacuation flight had not had a high temperature when she was examined onboard the MV Hondius.Three passengers from the MV Hondius – a Dutch couple and a German woman – have died and others have fallen sick with the rare disease, which usually spreads among rodents.No vaccines or specific treatments exist for hantavirus, which is endemic in Argentina, from where the ship departed in April.But health officials have said the risk for global public health is low and have played down comparisons with the Covid-19 pandemic.Rist said 22 French nationals had been identif...
2 passengers test positive for hantavirus after cruise ship evacuation
By JOSH FUNK and MIKE CORDER, Associated Press OMAHA, Nebraska (AP) — Passengers from a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak were being flown home Monday to more than 20 countries and quarantined, including a French woman and an American who tested positive. Passengers from the ship began flying home aboard military and government planes Sunday after the MV Hondius anchored in the Canary Islands. Personnel in full-body protective gear and breathing masks escorted the travelers from ship to shore in Tenerife, an effort that continued Monday. Three cruise ship passengers have died, and six people with confirmed or suspected cases of hantavirus are being quarantined, according to the World Health Organization. The lab results of the American who tested positive were inconclusive, WHO spokesperson Sarah Tyler said Monday. Health authorities say the risk to the broader public is low from the first-ever hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship. While there is no cure or vaccine for hantavirus, the WHO says early detection and treatment improves survival rates. The ship’s captain, Jan Dobrogowski, issued a video message Monday praising passengers and crew for their courage and perseverance, and he called for respect for their privacy. “I could not imagine sailing through these circumstances with a better group of people, guests and crew alike,” he said. A plane carrying patients evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship with suspected hantavirus infection, lands at the Bourget airport, north of Paris, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) 1 of 4A plane carrying patients evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship with suspected hantavirus infection, lands at the Bourget airport, north of Paris, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) Expand New cases in France, United States The French woman tested positive for hantavirus and her health worsened in the hospital overnight, French Health Minister Stephanie Rist said Monday. The woman was among five passengers who returned to France Sunday. She developed symptoms on the flight to Paris, Rist told public broadcaster France-Inter. One of 18 passengers evacuated from the ship and flown to the U.S. also tested positive for the hantavirus but is not showing any symptoms, and another had mild symptoms, U.S. health officials said late Sunday. After landing early Monday, 16 American passengers — one of them a British-U.S. dual citizen — were taken to the University of Nebraska Medical Center, which h...
Hantavirus case confirmed in American who evacuated cruise ship, flew ...
One of 17 American citizens repatriated from the MV Hondius cruise ship tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus hantavirus variant.
2 Passengers Test Positive For Hantavirus As A Third Shows Symptoms ...
Passengers are being disembarked from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, on May 10, 2026.
