{"id":30818,"date":"2026-05-28T04:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T04:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/30818\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T04:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T04:53:09","slug":"hantavirus-cases-from-cruise-outbreak-rise-to-13-following-new-case-in-spain-who-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/30818\/","title":{"rendered":"Hantavirus cases from cruise outbreak rise to 13 following new case in Spain, WHO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva, Switzerland<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The number of cases of hantavirus linked to a cruise ship at the centre of an outbreak has increased to 13, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpain\u00a0reported a new case among the passengers who are in quarantine, which brings the total number of cases to 13,\u201d WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-173758\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Spain-Tenerife-MV-Hondius-110526028.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"797\"  \/><br \/>The cruise ship MV Hondius, affected by a hantavirus outbreak, at the port of Granadilla de Abona, Tenerife, Spain, on 11th May, 2026. PICTURE: Reuters\/Pedro Nunes\/File photo<\/p>\n<p>Among them three died, but there have been no new deaths since 2nd May, Ghebreyesus said.<\/p>\n<p>\tWe rely on our readers to fund Sight&#8217;s work &#8211; become a financial supporter today!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation remains stable. Passengers who got sick are receiving needed care, while others remain in quarantine,\u201d Ghebreyesus said.<\/p>\n<p>In the last two weeks all remaining passengers, crew members and medical staff disembarked the MV Hondius luxury liner at the centre of the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Hantaviruses are rodent-borne viruses that can infect people and cause illness. The WHO estimates there are 10,000 to 100,000 human cases globally each year, \u200bwith severity varying by strain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The number of cases of hantavirus linked to a cruise ship at the centre of an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9587,9790,17,10831,2205,1924],"class_list":["post-30818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-hantavirus","tag-mv-hondius","tag-spain","tag-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus","tag-who","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}