{"id":943207,"date":"2026-05-07T06:27:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/943207\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T06:27:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:27:26","slug":"hantavirus-two-britons-self-isolating-in-uk-after-leaving-hantavirus-cruise-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/943207\/","title":{"rendered":"Hantavirus: Two Britons self-isolating in UK after leaving hantavirus cruise ship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three passengers have died on the MV Hondius<\/a> following the hantavirus outbreak. Spanish authorities have given permission for the ship to dock in the Canary Islands, despite concerns from local officials.<\/p>\n

About 150 people are still aboard the cruise ship<\/a> under “strict precautionary measures”, Oceanwide Expeditions has said.<\/p>\n

They include 19 passengers and four crew members listed as British, according to figures released by Oceanwide Expeditions on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Three people were evacuated from the ship on Wednesday to the Netherlands for treatment, the operator said – two in a serious condition, and one in a stable condition.<\/p>\n

The three evacuees were British, Dutch and German. Oceanwide Expeditions said the German evacuee was “closely associated” with a German woman who died on board the ship on 2 May.<\/p>\n

Among them was a 56-year-old British man, who was is in a “stable condition”.<\/p>\n

Prof Robin May, the chief scientific officer at the UKHSA, told BBC Breakfast on Thursday that the Briton is “in the Netherlands, our understanding is he is doing well”.<\/p>\n

“He is going to be under investigation for some time. I’m very pleased he’s now in hospital and receiving the treatment he needs,” May said.<\/p>\n

His wife Nicola told the Daily Telegraph, external<\/a> it had been “a very dramatic few days”.<\/p>\n

She told the paper: “He’s relieved to be off the ship. He had it quite mild then it got a bit more serious and now he’s stable again.<\/p>\n

“The fear with this virus is it can deteriorate very quickly so it’s been a bit up and down for him. I don’t believe he’s in imminent danger now but it was horrible.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three passengers have died on the MV Hondius following the hantavirus outbreak. Spanish authorities have given permission for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-943207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116531878158477550","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943207","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=943207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}