Canary Islands Leader Rejects Hantavirus-Hit Cruise Ship Heading to Tenerife
Spain is weighing evacuation and inspection plans as the outbreak has killed three passengers and sickened at least four others, officials said.
- South Africa confirmed the Andes strain of hantavirus, known for rare human-to-human transmission, in two people from the MV Hondius cruise ship, which experienced an outbreak causing three deaths.
- The MV Hondius was denied docking in Cape Verde and initially in the Canary Islands, but Spain later authorized docking in the Canaries after the WHO's request citing humanitarian reasons.
- Three seriously ill patients from the MV Hondius were evacuated to specialized hospitals in Europe, including the Netherlands, Germany, and South Africa or the Canary Islands, with WHO coordinating the medical response and quarantine measures.
- The Canary Islands' regional leader rejected docking due to public safety concerns, while Spain's central government and WHO emphasized the low risk to the wider public and the humanitarian necessity of urgent medical care for passengers and crew.
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In front of the main hospital in Tenerife, the issue is in everyone’s mind. Little known, the hantavirus remembers the coronavirus. Painful memories for the inhabitants of the island, who are thinking about the worst and are concerned about the medical staff. “There are no resources to put a population here, because then they are the people who are infected within the same hospital, without having to do with it. That’s my opinion and I say it co…
TENERIFE. This is where the virus ship Hondius will dock. Against the will of the local residents. – We are very angry, it is an unnecessary risk, says José Raul Perez Reyes, from the island.
Hantavirus cruise ship heads for Spain's Canary Islands as officials race to trace victims' contacts
The hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius on Thursday is en route to Spain's Canary Islands, as European and African authorities rush to trace anyone who may have come into contact with the virus.
The ship MV Hondius, with passengers and crew members confined to it because of a hantavirus outbreak, is en route to Tenerife in the Spanish archipelago of the Canary Islands where it is expected Saturday, before a passenger evacuation scheduled for early next week.
The "Hondius", on which passengers have been infected with the hantavirus, is on their way to Tenerife. Already before the confirmation of the first infection, 29 guests left the ship on the island of St. Helena.
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