{"id":430827,"date":"2026-05-03T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/430827\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:28:08","slug":"three-dead-in-suspected-hantavirus-outbreak-on-cruise-ship-in-atlantic-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/430827\/","title":{"rendered":"Three dead in suspected hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship in Atlantic \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Three people \u200chave died and one case of hantavirus has been confirmed among passengers \u200con a cruise vessel sailing in the Atlantic Ocean, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/world-health-organisation\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/world-health-organisation\/\">World Health Organisation<\/a> said \u200bon Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Six individuals were affected in the incident, of whom three have died and one is in intensive care in South Africa, \u200bit said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The WHO did not name the \u2060vessel or its operator, although a source familiar with the \u200csituation \u200csaid \u200bit was the MV Hondius, travelling from Argentina to Cape Verde.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWHO is facilitating co-ordination between \u2060member states and the \u200bship\u2019s operators for medical evacuation \u200bof two symptomatic passengers, as well as full public health \u200crisk assessment and support to \u200bthe remaining passengers on board,\u201d the WHO said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A Dutch \u2060foreign ministry spokesperson confirmed \u2060two Dutch \u200bpassengers had died, but gave no further details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sky News reported a British tourist was being treated in a hospital in South Africa after the suspected hantavirus outbreak, citing South Africa\u2019s department of health. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It also quoted Britain\u2019s foreign office as saying it \u200cwas closely monitoring reports \u2060of a potential hantavirus outbreak on the Hondius and was in touch with the cruise company \u200cand local authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Hantavirus, found throughout the world, is spread by contact with rodents or their urine or faeces. &#8211; Reuters\/AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people \u200chave died and one case of hantavirus has been confirmed among passengers \u200con a cruise vessel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3858,103,61,60,257,31614],"class_list":["post-430827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-argentina","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-south-africa","tag-world-health-organisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}