{"id":3565,"date":"2026-05-10T13:45:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=3565"},"modified":"2026-05-10T13:45:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:45:03","slug":"what-we-dont-know-about-the-hantavirus-outbreak-as-the-cruise-ship-nears-spanish-territory-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=3565","title":{"rendered":"What we don\u2019t know about the hantavirus outbreak as the cruise ship nears Spanish territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>By MOLLY QUELL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) \u2014 Countries around the world are preparing to deal with the more than 140 passengers and crew members on board a\u00a0hantavirus-stricken cruise ship\u00a0headed for the Canary Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=3564\">New Jersey says 2 residents were \u2018potentially exposed\u2019 to hantavirus on an airplane<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The vessel is expected to reach the Spanish island of Tenerife, off the coast of West Africa, early Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>At least three passengers\u00a0have died, and several other people have been infected.<\/p>\n<p>Hantavirus is usually spread by the\u00a0inhalation of contaminated rodent droppings\u00a0and isn\u2019t easily transmitted between people. Some scientists believe\u00a0the Andes virus\u00a0implicated in the cruise ship outbreak may be able to\u00a0spread\u00a0between people in rare cases. But the World Health Organization says the risk to the wider public from the outbreak is low. Symptoms usually show between one and eight weeks after exposure.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities and the cruise operator have been providing updates, but some key information is still lacking.<\/p>\n<p><span><iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"youtube-player\" height=\"360\" loading=\"lazy\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/snYe0XuYNMQ?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en-US&amp;autohide=2&amp;wmode=transparent\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what we don\u2019t know:<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Where the outbreak originated<\/h4>\n<p>Argentine investigators suspect a Dutch couple may have first contracted\u00a0the virus\u00a0while on a bird-watching trip before they boarded the cruise ship in Argentina on April 1. But no organization has confirmed where or how they acquired the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina\u2019s Health Ministry has zeroed in on the nation\u2019s southernmost town, Ushuaia. Officials plan to travel there in the coming days, according to a written statement to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<h4>What happens next to the remaining passengers<\/h4>\n<p>Spanish authorities are preparing to receive the remaining passengers and crew members on Tenerife. Officials said Friday that passengers will be evacuated in small boats to buses only once their repatriation flights are ready to take them.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has agreed to send a plane to the Canary Islands to pick up its citizens, as will the British government. Other countries have not yet made their plans public, and it is not clear how long boat passengers will have to wait for their flights.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Spain has requested medically equipped planes for passengers experiencing symptoms, Virginia Barcones, the country\u2019s head of emergency services, said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=3563\">Despite gains combating deforestation in Brazil\u2019s Amazon, forest degradation is a looming threat<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"youtube-player\" height=\"360\" loading=\"lazy\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eOjqh-OQl9g?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en-US&amp;autohide=2&amp;wmode=transparent\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>How many people may have been exposed<\/h4>\n<p>Cruise operator Oceanwide Expeditions and Dutch officials said Thursday that more than two dozen people from at least 12 different countries left the ship at the remote island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic on April 24.<\/p>\n<p>They included a Dutch woman who disembarked with her husband\u2019s body. He was the first passenger to die, but it wasn\u2019t until May 2 that health authorities first confirmed hantavirus in a ship passenger.<\/p>\n<p>The delay left countries scrambling to track the passengers who got off the ship some two weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The passengers included a resident of the remote island of Tristan da Cunha who has been hospitalized with symptoms of hantavirus, according to the British Foreign Office.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Doughty, the U.K. minister of overseas territories, said in a message to the British overseas territory that his thoughts were with \u201cthe islander currently in hospital and their spouse who is isolating.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>The whereabouts of all of the passengers<\/h4>\n<p>Many of the passengers who disembarked at St. Helena traveled on to other countries, including the Dutch woman whose husband died on board. She flew to Johannesburg then briefly boarded a plane preparing to fly to Amsterdam. She was removed because she was too ill to travel, and later died.<\/p>\n<p>South African and Dutch authorities are trying to trace the whereabouts of anyone who had contact with the woman during her travels. A flight attendant who had contact with her has tested negative for hantavirus after reporting symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Some governments, like the United Kingdom, have confirmed the whereabouts of their citizens who left the boat. However, U.K. officials do not know or have not made public how many others they have come into contact with since.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=3562\">What to know about the predictions for a potentially record-breaking El Nino<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countries are preparing to manage 140 people on a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands, but much is still unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facts","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What we don\u2019t know about the hantavirus outbreak as the cruise ship nears Spanish territory - 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