In this file photo A person in a hazmat suit (2R) is escorted to a ambulance from a medical aircraft allegedly carrying some of the passengers from the cruise ship MV Hondius believed to be infected with hantavirus, at Schiphol airport near Amsterdam on May 6, 2026. A plane that left Cape Verde following the evacuation of a cruise ship hit by the hantavirus landed in Spain's Canary Islands on May 6, while a second flight headed for the Netherlands. (Photo by Lina Selg / AFP)
May 11, 2026
Staff at Dutch hospital with hantavirus patient quarantined after procedure errors: hospital
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — Twelve staff members at a Dutch hospital treating a hantavirus-positive evacuee from the MV Hondius cruise ship are in preventative quarantine after procedures were not followed correctly, the hospital said Monday.
Procedural errors were made in taking blood and disposing of the patient’s urine, said the Radboud University Hospital in the east of the country in a statement.
“Due to these circumstances, twelve employees are going into preventive quarantine for six weeks as a precaution, even though the risk of infection is low,” added the hospital.
