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Health officials in numerous countries are working to contain the spread of illnesses linked to a hantavirus outbreak traced back to a now-deceased passenger on a Dutch cruise ship.

Story Timeline

Mon 00:12 - Fox News

Cruise ship outbreak leaves 3 dead as officials delay medical evacuations and probe hantavirus threat

Tue 09:07 - France 24

Evacuations planned as suspected hantavirus outbreak traps 150 on cruise ship

Tue 19:54 - The Telegraph

Why rat virus patients could become super-spreaders

Tue 21:54 - France 24

Hantavirus-hit cruise ship to arrive in Canary Islands in 'three to four days'

Tue 22:11 - NYT Europe

Hantavirus Outbreaks Are Rare, but They Aren’t Going Away and There’s No Cure

Wed 03:19 - Al Jazeera English

Spain agrees to let hantavirus-hit cruise ship dock in Canary Islands

Wed 08:42 - Euronews

'We don't know what we're dealing with': Canary Islands reject hantavirus cruise ship

Wed 09:40 - France 24

Evacuation of three people from hantavirus-hit cruise ship 'ongoing': WHO

Wed 10:04 - France 24

Live: Hantavirus-infected patient hospitalised in Zurich as three more 'evacuated' from cruise ship

Wed 10:11 - DW All

Hantavirus: Canary Islands objects to docking of cruise ship

Wed 10:11 - DW Top

Hantavirus: Canary Islands objects to docking of cruise ship

Wed 10:11 - DW All

Hantavirus: American CDC says risk to public 'very low'

Wed 10:11 - DW Top

Hantavirus: American CDC says risk to public 'very low'

Wed 10:14 - France 24

Hantavirus-hit cruise ship heads to Spain to dock in Canary Islands

Wed 11:45 - Süddeutsche Zeitung Top

Medicine: The most important questions and answers about the hantavirus

Wed 11:46 - France 24

Hantavirus: Latest updates on the ongoing outbreak aboard the MV Hondius

Wed 12:00 - UN News All

Hantavirus outbreak: Another passenger contracts disease

Wed 12:05 - Fox News

Swiss man tests positive for hantavirus after returning from cruise linked to deadly outbreak

Wed 13:42 - Fox News

Doctor warns 'terrifying' cruise virus can be mistaken for flu before turning deadly

Wed 15:22 - France 24

3 patients are being evacuated to Europe from ship with hantavirus outbreak

Wed 16:24 - Financial Times

Spain to repatriate 150 passengers from cruise hit by rat-borne virus

Wed 16:52 - ANSA Top News

Hantavirus, the Ministry of Health alerts border offices

Wed 16:56 - Le Monde

Hantavirus: many unknowns around an “unprecedented and worrying” health event; the WHO wants to reassure about the pandemic risk

Wed 17:01 - Fox News

Argentina investigators zero in on possible origin point of hantavirus in deadly cruise outbreak

Wed 21:38 - ANSA Top News

Hantavirus, evacuation of passengers from outbreak ship will begin on May 11th

Wed 21:38 - ANSA Mondo

Hantavirus, evacuation of passengers from outbreak ship will begin on May 11th

Wed 21:43 - Sky News (UK)

British ex-police officer evacuated from cruise ship isolating in hospital with hantavirus

Wed 22:12 - Al Jazeera English

Argentina investigates link to deadly hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship

Wed 22:12 - Al Jazeera

Argentina investigates link to deadly hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship

Thu 00:20 - NYT Europe

Health Authorities Monitor Hantavirus Cruise Passengers in United States

Thu 02:33 - La Repubblica (IT)

Hantavirus, the dead Dutch spouses had traveled between Chile, Uruguay and Argentina

Thu 03:55 - BBC Europe

Hantavirus-hit cruise ship leaves Cape Verde after three evacuated

Thu 04:35 - BBC Headlines

Two Britons self-isolating in UK after leaving hantavirus cruise ship early

Thu 05:43 - NRK (NO)

The climate crisis may increase cases of hantavirus

Thu 07:09 - La Libre (BE)

Hantavirus: the ship heading to the Canaries, “For now, the risk for the rest of the world is low”

Thu 08:15 - Aftenposten (NO)

Flight attendant in hospital with possible hantavirus infection

Thu 08:37 - La Libre (BE)

Hantavirus: a flight attendant hospitalized in the Netherlands after a risky contact

Thu 09:31 - ANSA Top News

Hantavirus, 'test for KLM flight attendant, he has mild symptoms'

Thu 09:31 - ANSA Mondo

Hantavirus, 'test for KLM flight attendant, he has mild symptoms'

Thu 09:36 - France 24

Cruise ship with hantavirus outbreak heads to Spain's Canary Islands after 3 are evacuated

Thu 09:38 - France 24

Argentina probes link to deadly hantavirus outbreak on Atlantic cruise

Thu 09:39 - France 24

What to know about hantavirus, the illness linked to a cruise ship outbreak

Thu 10:08 - La Libre (BE)

Hantavirus: “No one has symptoms on board anymore”

Thu 10:11 - Die Welt

More guests than expected left the Hantavirus ship - flight attendant in hospital with symptoms

Thu 10:30 - DW All

Hantavirus: Cruise company says no sympomatic guests on ship

Thu 10:30 - DW Top

Hantavirus: Cruise company says no sympomatic guests on ship

Thu 10:31 - ANSA Top News

Operator, 'no individuals with hantavirus symptoms on the cruise'

Thu 10:36 - ANSA Mondo

Operator, 'no individuals with hantavirus symptoms on the cruise'

Thu 10:58 - Die Zeit Newsfeed

Hantavirus: At least 29 passengers left the “MS Hondius” after the virus outbreak

Thu 10:58 - El Pais

Breaking news on the Hantavirus outbreak, live | The cruise company raises to 30 the number of passengers on the ship who got off before the outbreak was detected

Thu 11:00 - HLN (BE)

Now that a flight attendant is also in hospital quarantine: is hantavirus more contagious than thought? Virologist Marc Van Ranst explains

Thu 11:03 - DW All

Hantavirus: Cruise company says no symptomatic guests on ship

Thu 11:03 - DW Top

Hantavirus: Cruise company says no symptomatic guests on ship

Thu 11:03 - DW All

Hantavirus: WHO assesses public health risk as low

Thu 11:03 - DW Top

Hantavirus: WHO assesses public health risk as low

Thu 12:00 - UN News Global

Hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship not ‘another COVID’, WHO says

Thu 12:00 - UN News All

Hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship not ‘another COVID’, WHO says

Thu 13:41 - ANSA Main

Hantavirus, the ship bound for the Canary Islands. 'All the infected have already disembarked'

Thu 13:54 - Euronews

Deadly hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship - everything you need to know in under 3 minutes

Thu 14:12 - Euronews

EU steps up coordination on hantavirus but insists risks for citizens are 'low'

Thu 15:00 - Euronews

Tenerife locals 'concerned but calm' as hantavirus-hit cruise ship approaches

Thu 16:53 - ANSA Mondo

Chile excludes that the MV Hondius hantavirus infection occurred in the country

Thu 21:25 - Al Jazeera English

Tenerife resort town awaits hantavirus-hit cruise ship

Fri 03:30 - El Pais

Unprecedented anchoring in Tenerife, boats and negotiations with 22 countries: the difficult return home for the passengers of the hantavirus cruise

Fri 06:03 - BBC Headlines

Third British national has suspected hantavirus infection, government says

Fri 09:08 - Al Jazeera English

UK identifies new suspected hantavirus case on remote island

Fri 09:16 - France 24

More hantavirus cases possible after cruise ship outbreak, says World Health Organisation

Fri 10:00 - Fox News

DR MARC SIEGEL: Hantavirus cruise outbreak is alarming but fear is spreading faster than facts

Fri 11:04 - Euronews

Hantavirus outbreak: what you need to know about virus risks at sea

Fri 11:59 - The Hill

Trump on Hantavirus: 'It's very much we hope under control'

Fri 12:00 - UN News All

Wider hantavirus outbreak risk is ‘absolutely low’, insists UN health agency

Fri 12:00 - France 24

Hantavirus outbreak risk to public is 'absolutely low', WHO says

Fri 14:17 - Financial Times