Hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius arrives in Tenerife

scienceMay 10, 2026561,502

The cruise ship MV Hondius arrived at Granadilla Port in Tenerife on May 10 with more than 140 passengers and crew as a World Health Organization-led international evacuation began. Spanish authorities identified several passengers and crew with severe respiratory illness and linked three deaths to an onboard hantavirus cluster, prompting quarantines, medical screening, and repatriation flights. The cluster was first notified to the World Health Organization on May 2 after multiple countries reported cases tied to the cruise, triggering cross-border public health coordination. Health officials emphasize urgency because hantavirus can cause life-threatening respiratory failure, requiring rapid isolation and coordinated medical evacuation to limit further spread and ensure care.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

@drtedros.who.int

Most passengers and crew of the MV Hondius successfully disembarked today. Grateful to Ministers @monicagarciag.bsky.social, Fernando Grande-Marlaska and @avtorresp.bsky.social, their teams, and the whole government of 🇪🇸 for their leadership and technical excellence shown throughout this operation.

12544d ago

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus5

@who.int continues to work closely with experts in all involved countries, as coordination remains key to keeping passengers, crew, responders and communities healthy and safe. #hantavirus

NPR

@npr.org

Update: As hantavirus dominates the headlines, sparking fears of another debilitating pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stressed that the risk of sweeping contagion is small.

13045d ago

onthebus77.bsky.social14

And do you believe the current CDC?

grklawyer.bsky.social8

This isnt a normal well run cdc, this is a cdc run by crackpots & denialists who dont care about any of us.

Windows 914

The WHO says basically the same thing which should be trusted over the CDC and should really be the headline. The current CDC would be incapable of speaking truthfully.

Andy Olsen4

The same CDC that was gutted of staff and expertise. www.npr.org/2025/05/07/n...

Maggie Malone3

Man. Does this sound familiar? I want to hear it from Dr. Fauci.

BeezerBear3

Wouldn’t it be a good idea for these passengers to quarantine somewhere before they scatter around the world?

jonesro3

That’s what Trump 1.0 said about coronavirus. Do you think you could trust these people?

dsbyrd.bsky.social3

Like I would listen to a damn thing the U.S. CDC says these days! I go to British sources, including the NHS. www.gov.uk/government/n...

karenwalz-kk62.bsky.social2

If it hit the US It will be a HOAX like COVID was Per the current pedophile idiot in office

Ewan Sutherland2

Meanwhile, RFKjr is advocating eating roadkill and taking Ivermectin 🤡

🌙Moon Wink✨2

First they said they'd be quarantined safely, now this crap.

Cynthia J. Palazzolo2

And CDC is totally unprepared to help mitigate this horrific virus. CDC is AWOL.

Lisa D. T. Rice #MaskUp2

I feel sorry for the passengers on the planes with them. 😷

rossginsberg.bsky.social2

Luckily it doesn’t spread as easily as COVId. Still it’s not good when even if the CDC is telling the truth about it not being a concern, the fact that most people won’t trust that under this administration is a big problem.

Matt Novak

@paleofuture.bsky.social

ABC News: “A person who was among five French nationals aboard the MV Hondius has shown signs of hantavirus infection, according to the French prime minister.”

French MV Hondius passenger now symptomatic, French PM says
A person who was among five French nationals aboard the MV Hondius has shown signs of hantavirus infection, according to the French prime minister.
"Five of our compatriots present on the MV
Hondius, a hotbed of Hantavirus infection, have been repatriated to national territory. One of them exhibited symptoms on the repatriation flight," Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu posted Sunday on X.
"As a result, these five passengers were immediately placed in strict isolation until further notice," Lecornu said, adding that the passengers "are receiving medical care and will undergo testing and a full health assessment."
"Starting this evening, I will issue a decree to implement appropriate isolation measures for close contacts and to protect the general population," Lecornu added.

10244d ago

The Wurst2

spouting gouts of blood from every orifice was a dead giveaway

RoseMarie

@rosesbloom24.bsky.social

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed it is sending a team to Spain’s Canary Islands, where the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius is expected to arrive on Sunday, (cont.) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...?

5945d ago

RoseMarie15

and US passengers will be evacuated to an airbase in Nebraska. However, experts say the US is unprepared for such a disease threat.

Linda Marie 🕊️4

Send Dr. Oz and RFK

pjm2sqpaul.bsky.social2

Once again we are screwed with the Trump administration during another outbreak while his incompetence in leadership shines. Didn’t we learn from Covid 19 this is the last person to trust especially with Kennedy in charge now?

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦

@maks23.bsky.social

🇪🇸 Spain has begun the evacuation process of passengers from ‌the hantavirus-hit cruise ship anchored near Tenerife, — Reuters Spanish nationals will be the first to disembark on small boats in groups of five and taken to shore where they will be transferred onto buses and taken to the local airport.

11445d ago

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦70

The passengers will board a flight back to Madrid on a Spanish military plane. All passengers on the luxury cruise ship MV Hondius are considered high-risk contacts as a precautionary measure.

MS NOW

@ms.now

BREAKING: A cruise ship stranded at sea for more than a month following a deadly hantavirus outbreak has arrived in Spain, where officials are beginning an unprecedented evacuation effort to return passengers safely to their home countries.

8745d ago

𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕪𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕤

@saltybitchables.bsky.social

The Hantavirus cruise ship has begun to disembark its passengers, first in Spain. “All passengers on the MV Hondius are considered high-risk contacts as a precautionary measure.” WHO recommends a 42-day quarantine. IMHO, keep them on that fucking ship for those 42 days. #ProudBlue #Hantavirus

5745d ago

𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕪𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕤60

“The last time there was a virus and tRump was in office, it didn’t bode well for any of us”—Tell Williams. I don’t believe I’m overreacting. 8 people were infected, and 3 people died. That’s 37.5% of those infected. Only 1.02% of those who caught COVID died. #ProudBlue #HantavirusCruiseShip

Mi chel. Strange but no Dr.2

Would only work if no one gets I'll in the next 6 weeks. If someone gets symptoms then 6 weeks start all over again. Isolating the potential patients from each other works faster

WHO

@who.int

LIVE from Tenerife: Media briefing on disembarkation of passengers and crew from MV Hondius #Hantavirus www.youtube.com/live/iw2eyv-...

5345d ago

VirusSucks.com2

Members of the international #hantavirus research and clinical community say Andes virus transmission is airborne with person-to-person transmission even from a brief encounter in a restroom. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... And asymptomatic patients may be infectious zenodo.org/records/2009... #ANDV

The Associated Press

@apnews.com

BREAKING: Passengers start disembarking from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship anchored off Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands.

6445d ago

Alt CDC (they/them)

@altcdc.altgov.info

🫠🫠🫠 Checking in to combat rumors, again. Once again: The VSP chief announced his retirement several weeks ago. VSP is still inspecting & providing technical assistance to ships in their jurisdiction. Check out their inspection & outbreak websites. MV Hondius isn’t in VSP‘s jurisdiction.

6045d ago

The New York Times

@nytimes.com

Breaking news: The MV Hondius, the cruise ship that had carried passengers infected with hantavirus, arrived in the Canary Islands, where other passengers would soon disembark.

5445d ago

The Atlantic

@theatlantic.com

When medical oncologist Stephen Kornfeld set sail aboard a cruise ship, he didn’t expect that he would end up taking care of three people thought to be sick with hantavirus, @katherinejwu.com reports. She spoke with him about his experience: theatln.tc/mJ05veKz

4545d ago

Anita Anand

@anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social

Canada has arranged an aircraft to safely repatriate four Canadians from the MV Hondius. The plane is now on its way home from Tenerife, Spain. Thank you to my Spanish counterpart José Manuel Albares and Dutch counterpart Tom Berendsen for your support in facilitating this.

5344d ago

Anita Anand14

See our whole of government update here ⬇️

Xabier Ostale

@embers1.bsky.social

French PM has announced one of the five citizens of his country that were evacuated from MV Hondius cruise is with hantavirus symptoms. The drip is starting, so much for a "very difficult" to transmit virus, isn't it?

4044d ago

Guiness Pig4

The hubris of humans is truly astounding

Kai Kupferschmidt

@kakape.bsky.social

As passengers and crew of the MV Hondius are being taken off the ship, @deutschewelle.dw.com asked me to answer some questions about this outbreak of Andes virus…

3845d ago

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