{"id":697155,"date":"2026-05-27T13:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/697155\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T13:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:19:13","slug":"hantavirus-cases-from-cruise-outbreak-rise-to-13-following-new-case-in-spain-who-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/697155\/","title":{"rendered":"Hantavirus cases from cruise outbreak rise to 13 following new case in Spain, WHO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 Organisation said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSpain reported 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 class=\"c-paragraph\">Among them, three have died, but there have been no new deaths since May 2, Ghebreyesus said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe situation remains stable. Passengers who got sick are receiving needed care, while others remain in quarantine,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 class=\"c-paragraph\">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<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of cases of hantavirus linked to a cruise ship at the centre of an outbreak has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,241672,84,254278,16119],"class_list":["post-697155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-hantavirus","tag-health","tag-outbreak-rise-to-13-following-new-case-in-spain","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}