A person in a hazmat suit (2R) is escorted to an 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: AFP)
July 2, 2026
WHO says cruise ship-linked hantavirus outbreak over
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The United Nations (UN) health agency on Thursday declared an end to the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship which sparked international alarm, after the last person left quarantine.
World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference he was “very pleased to say that WHO considers the outbreak of hantavirus over”.
