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Cruise ship passenger making best of quarantine in US following hantavirus outbreak
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Cruise ship passenger making best of quarantine in US following hantavirus outbreak

  • By COREY WILLIAMS - Associated Press

When Jake Rosmarin boarded the MV Hondius, he gleefully posted on social media that the ship would be home for 35 days as he and more than 100 other passengers and crew were to travel across the South Atlantic. Now, the content creator and photographer plans on spending more time than that in quarantine after three people died from the hantavirus and others were sickened while aboard the ship. The 30-year-old Rosmarin is one of 15 ship passengers from the United States under observation in a quarantine unit in Nebraska. Another is in a biocontainment unit. Rosmarin says he has not gotten sick from the hantavirus, but he still plans to spend the full quarantine period at the facility.

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Passengers board a plane bound for Eindhoven, after disembarking from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius at the airport in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Arturo Rodriguez)

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The hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius is seen at anchor at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Arturo Rodriguez)

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French woman evacuated from cruise ship tests positive for hantavirus

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A French woman evacuated from a cruise ship has tested positive for hantavirus and her health worsened in the hospital overnight, French Health Minister Stephanie Rist said Monday. The woman was among five French passengers repatriated Sunday to Paris from the MV Hondius. She developed symptoms on the flight to Paris, Rist told public broadcaster France-Inter. Passengers from the ship began flying home aboard military and government planes Sunday after the vessel anchored in the Canary Islands. The World Health Organization recommended close monitoring of the former passengers, and many countries quarantined them. An American passenger being flown to Nebraska also tested positive but had no symptoms.

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Nebraska Medicine's Davis Global Center is seen on Sunday, May 10,2026 in Omaha, Neb. where American passengers from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship will quarantine. (AP Photo/Rebecca S. Gratz)

Hantavirus-stricken cruise ship arrives at Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands
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Hantavirus-stricken cruise ship arrives at Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands

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A hantavirus-stricken cruise ship with more than 140 people on board has arrived at Tenerife, one of Spain’s Canary Islands off the coast of West Africa. The passengers and some of the crew are to disembark on the island, under strict safety precautions. Authorities have said those who will disembark will have no contact with the local population. The World Health Organization, Spanish authorities and cruise company Oceanwide Expeditions have said that nobody on board the MV Hondius is currently showing symptoms of the virus. Three people have died since the outbreak, and five passengers who left the ship are infected with hantavirus.

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The hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius is seen at anchor after arriving at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, speaks to the media near the area where passengers from the MV Hondius are expected to arrive at the port of Port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)