Hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship MV Hondius kills three
Three people have died and at least eight passengers have fallen ill in a hantavirus outbreak aboard the expedition ship MV Hondius, health officials said. British authorities diagnosed a third UK national with suspected hantavirus and are isolating British passengers and crew at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral after Tenerife authorities evacuated the ship. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 17 Americans from the voyage will be monitored on return but will not face mandatory quarantine, and the World Health Organization has urged calm. Officials are tracing contacts and screening disembarking passengers because hantavirus infections can be severe and require rapid public health action.
We can’t afford to take any chances. It’s time to sink the hantavirus ship, and all other cruise ships. No survivors.
ritchie25How can a boat advocate for such a thing
Doug15"I say we take off & nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Nanjing Narg10Finally, America has a government that is willing to murder thousands of old people at sea
Mavis Gray7cruise ships already feel like floating disease side quests so this escalation tracks
Mike B5but sir, RFK jr is on the boat taking rat penis samples
Tom Forsyth3What if we just send them to the Strait and let nature take its course?
Edgar Allan Poester2Also we can scuttle them for artificial reefs, for the ocean critters of course.
Neil Stenhouse2We were fools to mock Poseidon with our jolly vessels. The ocean is not a place for leisure
Scott Oliver2… what about the pixelated ones?
Thanks to stories like these, when I hear the word "cruise" the first thing I think of is "disease". www.yahoo.com/news/article...
CurmudgeonAtLarge30My wife distainfully refers to them as "floating petri dishes." And we'll never be on one.
Wyattlovesmusic16I will never understand the appeal.
sandiego_cindy 👣🐾14didn’t whackadoodle worm brain fire all cruise ship health inspectors?
ratchetology.bsky.social13i think the same thing when i hear church school office concert play subway bus plane train grocery store amusement park aquarium zoo aboretum movie theater family gathering potluck
Carol11I only go on small ship cruises. I will not do a 1000+ person cruise. It's not even just about the hygiene. It's the mass of humanity, the lines, the rudeness of the fellow passengers to each other and to the crew, etc. Small cruise ships are a lovely way to travel. Highly recommend.
Liz McFie7...cruise travel still creates the same challenge: many people sharing the same meals, the same air, the same water systems, and the same common spaces. That is why outbreaks keep returning... britbrief.co.uk/health/publi...
Hey it’s Robin6A giant floating petri dish.
splicer1.bsky.social6The first thing I think of is a bunch of obnoxious loud fat people crammed into a tight space that offload at tourists spots where the natives hate them!
Neil Steedman5Data suggests the chance of developing a gastrointestinal illness, such as norovirus, on a cruise is 1 in 5,500. Outbreaks like the May 2026 Caribbean Princess incident, where 115 people reported symptoms, represent only 1% of all norovirus cases.
Carol5Norovirus is a concern. It's from the buffet. Back away from the buffet.
Millie, or Mills if we’re friends5Truly. When I think cruise I think C. dif Covid Hepatitis And now hantavirus
pillsbury3i was a chef, my wife finally convinced me to go with her on a cruise. never again. ewww
Vanessa Chaland3Same here. Overstuffed. Noisy. Dirty bodies. Too many people crammed into a small space, drunks, overpriced, no thanks.
Beth Pink3I've been on a couple cruises, and I enjoy being out a sea, and love the feeling of the waves. But I could do without the people, and after trump has fired the inspectors that used to keep the ships somewhat clean, I'll never go on another
Cbjmad3Right, who are these brave souls keep getting going on Cruises to get sick? Is it like Fast Food and u eventually gain a tolerance that stops the diarrhea?
Clemson Gamecock ❌👑3Convenient how the media neglects to say how trump fired all the cruise ship inspectors and health officials.
AndyV3A floating petri dish ….
Beth Unlimited3Look at the design of those ships compared to this one from the early '70s. I don't know how truly seaworthy those top-heavy-looking ships would be in rough waters, let alone coping with overcrowding and disease potential. No thank you.
Dogs10Gods03"Icon of the Sea" has a 7,500 person capacity! 😳 I'd rather have unnecessary back surgery. 🤢
illimij3My mom bullied my dad into taking her on a cruise. When I picked them up at the airport and asked dad how it went he only said, "don't need to do that again."
LadyFoodLover21: Don't rich ppl ride on those cruise ships? B: If you think about it, yea. Those ppl are stuck on a boat for days.
Jennifer Burchill 2One of many reasons I will never go on a cruise.
Naneki 🌺 💙2With Brainworm @ the helm, what could possibly go wrong? 😡
MadRabbit2In all fairness the local Walmart probably spreads just as much or more! We just don’t hear about it. It’s not an interesting story so the media doesn’t bother. I’ve yet to be sick from a cruise. Just our local stores, dr offices etc. Especially around summer and spring break.
russellmania50.bsky.social2How does the cruise industry continue to exist with all the bad press? I would never, ever…
Digital Relic 🌀2Elect a clown expect a circus.
Abe R. Zuewrath2I don't understand the allure of having the shits on a ship. 🙄
Dr.Dr. BRT2Yes. But did they have comorbidities? 🤮🤢
cleep10002The size of that thing!
The Best Words2But, Trump cancelled the program that inspected the sanitation on cruise ships, even though it was not paid for by tax payers. Why did he do it? Donations from the cruise ships industry??? POS.
Fredxie2These are floating Petri dishes
thevoiceindetroit.bsky.social2The disease isn't being spread by Cruise Companies. It's being spread by self involved, elitist Americans who don't feel like they need to wash their hands before going into the dining room.
Ingrid 2.02Floating Petri dishes or incubators like we used in our labs. Never step foot on one. Countries inundated with ship tourists should stop the landing immediately.
AncientActivist2My first reaction is the claustrophobic feeling I had when I had to spend the day in jail. Even though the bars seemed wide, I still couldn't breathe and the Matron would not even consider "just cracking the door a bit". Drug charge . Nothing big. Simple possession. Reduced to "disturbing the peace"
Blackironfitter2Same. We'd love to take one, but hard no.
🕹️Cuppa🍵Tom🌈🇬🇧🇪🇺2I hate the idea of cruises but would love to go on one specifically to see the night sky and auroras, but maybe not…
Christine2I call em floating Petri dishes
MJ🇨🇦2I have no desire, nor have I ever wanted to go on a cruise. The floating petri dish analogy works for me, plus too many people in limited space, ewww!
Jay Whozblue2A cruise ship is just a big hotel on a ship. They got you trapped and they overcharge you all day long. The virus that goes with it intolerable. Skip it and go to a hotel in a place with an ocean view. Safer.
Max2Cruise ships are just big floating vile Petri dishes.
Firebird7x32I watched Netflix's Trainwreck: Poop Cruise and there is no way I would ever go on a cruise now 😂
Lynn Everlasting 🇨🇦 🇺🇦2Me too! The other thing I think of is “seasickness”, which is why big boats and I are not a thing. 🤢
OCLadyHawk2I watched "The Love Boat" religiously when I was a teen. Cruising did not even look like "fun" to me then. I'd turn down insane money in a NY minute to be trapped on one now.
Tulpa King (aka Admiral Snackbar)2You should also think “sexual assault”
MandyLoon2When I hear the word 'disease,' the first thing I think of is RFK jr. #AllRepublicans #Midterms2026
Joy2We were visiting Venice when 3 huge cruise ships docked. The city became uncomfortably crammed, but the next day they all sailed out and suddenly it was so much more pleasant to wander about. If you're on a huge cruise ship, you never get to see those quieter days. No thanks.
dlodz2More than 100 people with the shits all at the same time. Better check the water pressure on that floating septic tank.
Maud Burnett McInerney2Could not pay me to go on one.
The OG of outbreak viruses on cruise ships needed to remind everyone who is boss. 115 infected on the carribean princess cruise ship in an ongoing outbreak. Sounds like my idea of hell on earth. Trapped at sea on a ship full of people with vomiting and diarrhea. abcnews.com/Internationa...
Lola7Norovirus outbreaks have become increasingly common I/t past yr The CDC “cleared out almost its entire Vessel Sanitation Program, a key group that ensures ships are properly sanitized to prevent them from becoming the type of plague frigate the world is now dealing with” futurism.com/health-medic...
LabLit.com4Shouldn't we be more concerned about measles?
Kim Novak - The Reading Rx4And there’s the Noro smell that is just everywhere
NonViolet3I thought that the CDC no longer tracked outbreaks on cruise ships, but I may have been thinking of this news (from more than a year ago) that they were no longer doing inspections. I guess they still track whatever diseases the cruise lines inform them of? www.cruiselawnews.com/2025/04/arti...
Camille LaGuire2A virus which is not killed by Purel. You need bleach or hot soapy water.
Billy Bragg's Liquid Aminos2Seriously. A half-dozen people get Hanta? Norovirus is like HOLD MY BEER. I could do this six ways to Sunday!!
US health officials are making plans to repatriate about 17 Americans from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship due to dock in the Canary Islands this weekend. None have symptoms but they’ll be taken to a quarantine unit in Nebraska, where officials say they’ll be made comfortable.
SJSCentralTX5Why Nebraska? To leave them in a landlocked place that’s sparsely populated? And make it harder to find out what happened to them? CDC no longer has a team that inspects cruise ships. CDC may not have the teams that would act to contain potential epidemics.
RJ3Oh gawd. Once I craved a cruise but then thought: what could go wrong
anungunrob.bsky.social3they'll probably have to connect from Miami, to L.A. to NYC and finally Nebraska just to be safe.
Dr Deb K2How will they be transported from the Canary Islands to Nebraska?? 🤔
Mike Anderson2Dang. The Plague and quarantined to Nebraska? May want to rethink life choices
it is possible that like, cruise ships are too large? We've crossed some sort of invisible limit of max number of people per square km of vehicle that ensures an epidemic will break out on every ship?
Aj!7Modern cruises are like if diseases got to design a modern a activity
Kikko-Man l'incroyable homme-sauce-soja33,116 total passengers and 1,131 crew members now i'm thinking about the potential for a very very tedious remake of Return of the Obra Dinn
The Joy🐇2I still don't understand why they're so popular among people with disposable income
