Scramble to evacuate two people from cruise ship amid suspected hantavirus outbreak

WHO confirms seven cases of virus on MV Hondius after deaths of three passengers and four others left ill What is hantavirus, the infection thought to have killed three on cruise ship?Medics are scrambling to evacuate two people from a luxury cruise ship stranded off the coast of Cape Verde, after an outbreak of a rare respiratory virus killed three people, left four others ill and forced nearly 150 people from across the world to isolate onboard.The plight of the MV Hondius, which set off in March from southern Argentina carrying 149 people from 23 countries, emerged late on Sunday after the World Health Organization (WHO) said it was investigating a suspected outbreak. Continue reading...