Canary Islands Await Ship with Hantavirus: Passengers to be Quarantined
Spain has announced that there are currently no passengers aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius showing symptoms of hantavirus. The vessel, carrying 144 passengers and crew members, is expected to arrive in Tenerife, where foreign nationals will be sent home and Spanish citizens will be placed in quarantine.
Spanish authorities stated that individuals will be transported directly to planes or hospitals, avoiding public spaces. Interaction with the general population will be excluded.
Meanwhile, efforts are underway to locate passengers who disembarked the ship before the official announcement of the hantavirus outbreak across four continents. During the cruise from Argentina to Cape Verde, at least eight people were infected, three of whom, including nationals from the Netherlands and Germany, have died. Following the first fatality, at least 12 individuals from various countries left the ship.
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Among them were passengers from California, who have been located and placed under observation. Cases of hantavirus have also been reported in Switzerland, Israel, and a British overseas territory.
Medical experts believe that the initial patients may have been a husband and wife from the Netherlands who died from the infection after traveling in South America.
Earlier, the WHO reported that hantavirus does not pose a significant threat to public health. Typically, this infection is transmitted from rodents to humans, but a rare form may have manifested on the ship, where the virus is transmitted from person to person.
