Greek national on board cruise ship with suspected hantavirus outbreak

The MV Hondius cruise vessel is anchored astatine a larboard successful Praia, Cape Verde, connected May 4, 2026. [Arilson Almeida/AP]

A Greek nationalist is among the passengers aboard the cruise vessel MV Hondius crossing the Atlantic Ocean, where three passengers person died successful a suspected outbreak of hantavirus.

The accusation was obtained by a database of passengers and unit issued by Oceanwide Expeditions, the ship’s owners. The institution said there are 149 radical connected board, representing 23 antithetic nationalities. Most passengers are from the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain. 

It said strict precautionary measures are successful process connected board, “including isolation measures, hygiene protocols and aesculapian monitoring. All passengers person been informed and are being supported.”

Two of the cases of hantavirus person been confirmed, and 5 much are suspected, among radical who fell sick connected a cruise vessel present marooned disconnected the Cape Verde islands, the World Health Organization said.

The three fatalities were a Dutch mates and a German national, while a British nationalist was evacuated from the vessel and is successful intensive attraction ⁠in South Africa, officials said.

The UN wellness assemblage said its working presumption was that the archetypal lawsuit of the couple, who joined the vessel successful Argentina, were infected disconnected the ⁠ship, possibly while doing some activities such arsenic vertebrate watching, and that human-to-human transmission ⁠may person happened connected board.

The authorities successful Cape Verde – an land federation successful the Atlantic disconnected West Africa – ⁠said they had not allowed the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius to dock arsenic ⁠a precaution.