{"id":426695,"date":"2026-05-14T03:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T03:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/426695\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T03:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T03:54:09","slug":"second-kiwi-isolating-overseas-after-cruise-ship-hantavirus-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/426695\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Kiwi isolating overseas after cruise ship hantavirus exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade is offering consular support to the New Zealand dual national during this time.<\/p>\n

No further information will be provided for privacy reasons.<\/p>\n

The first New Zealander who was exposed to hantavirus is reportedly in \u201cgood health\u201d and is expected to depart the Netherlands on a flight to Australia.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the ABC reported the Australian Government was hopeful it would finalise plans to have six passengers, including the New Zealander, on the way to start quarantine in Australia within 48 hours.<\/p>\n

Australian Federal Health Minister Mark Butler said the Australian passengers and the Kiwi are \u201call in good health\u201d and in \u201crelatively good spirits\u201d despite what they have been through.<\/p>\n

This comes after three people died and at least six others were infected after a hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius<\/a> cruise ship during its voyage around South America last month.<\/p>\n

The NZ Ministry of Health is reassuring Kiwis that public health services are well situated to support returnees who have potentially been exposed to hantavirus, with capacity to support their quarantine on entry.<\/p>\n

There are processes in place to alert public health services if someone who has been exposed to hantavirus travels to New Zealand.<\/p>\n

More information about hantavirus is available on the Health New Zealand website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade is offering consular support to the New Zealand dual national during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[30250,74,29893,1558,2037,17309,33014,167238,134,218868,194,111,139,69,10711,3236,8466,17093,27557,8229],"class_list":["post-426695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-abroad","tag-after","tag-authorities","tag-been","tag-cruise","tag-exposed","tag-exposure","tag-hantavirus","tag-health","tag-isolating","tag-kiwi","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-officials","tag-overseas","tag-second","tag-ship","tag-supporting","tag-they"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}