Hantavirus outbreak on MV Hondius cruise ship prompts international evacuations as vessel heads to Tenerife

The MV Hondius, a Dutch-flagged cruise ship with over 140 passengers and crew, is heading to Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands after a hantavirus outbreak killed at least three people and infected several others. The United States, United Kingdom, and multiple European nations are organizing charter flights to repatriate their citizens, with American passengers set to be quarantined at Nebraska's National Quarantine Unit. The World Health Organization assessed the risk to the wider public as low, and a flight attendant who briefly encountered an infected passenger tested negative for the virus.