Spain Plans Rigorous Quarantine for Hantavirus Cruise Passengers
Spain will isolate more than 140 passengers and crew as authorities trace contacts after at least three deaths on the MV Hondius.
- Spanish authorities are preparing to receive the MV Hondius in a cordoned-off area of Tenerife this weekend, as Virginia Barcones, Spain's head of emergency services, confirmed passengers will arrive at a "completely isolated, cordoned-off area."
- Stopped at the remote British territory of Tristan in the South Atlantic, the Dutch-flagged vessel faces a suspected hantavirus outbreak that has killed at least three passengers.
- Repatriation efforts are underway, with The United States planning to retrieve 17 citizens and The British government chartering a plane for nearly two dozen of its nationals; Netherlands-based Oceanwide Expeditions reported no remaining passengers are symptomatic.
- Confirming a flight attendant on a plane boarded by an infected passenger tested negative for hantavirus on Friday, authorities across four continents are tracing passengers who disembarked April 24 without screening.
- Symptoms typically appear between one and eight weeks after exposure, so health officials continue monitoring travelers; two Britons have been confirmed with the virus, with one hospitalized in the Netherlands and the other in South Africa.
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If all goes well, the 147 passengers from 23 countries will be allowed to disembark from the cruise ship MV Hondius off Tenerife on Sunday. Passengers may only leave the ship once a plane is ready to take them to their home countries. The remaining passengers may come to the Netherlands. There is fear of the hantavirus on Tenerife.
The Swiss on board is healthy. On Sunday the ship arrives in Tenerife. Crew and passengers are isolated.
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The vessel affected by the infectious disease will arrive on Sunday in Tenerife, where it will remain anchored off the coast while passengers are evacuated, and then repatriated to their countries of origin.
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