{"id":935846,"date":"2026-05-03T22:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/935846\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T22:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:37:15","slug":"three-dead-in-suspected-hantavirus-outbreak-on-atlantic-cruise-ship-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/935846\/","title":{"rendered":"Three dead in suspected hantavirus outbreak on Atlantic cruise ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three dead after suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise shippublished at 21:25 BST<\/p>\n<p>21:25 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three people have died after a suspected hantavirus outbreak<br \/>\non a cruise ship sailing in the Atlantic Ocean, the World Health Organization<br \/>\n(WHO) has told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One case has been confirmed, with five more suspected cases<br \/>\nunder investigation, it says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One British national aged 69 is in intensive care in<br \/>\nJohannesburg, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The outbreak was reported aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship,<br \/>\nwhich was travelling from Argentina to Cape Verde.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hantavirus infections are usually linked to environmental<br \/>\nexposure, such as contact with urine or faeces from infected rodents, but in<br \/>\nrare cases can spread between people, leading to severe respiratory illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019ll bring you more on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three dead after suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise shippublished at 21:25 BST 21:25 BST Three people have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-935846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116513042990896754","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}