Anonymousabout 18 hours ago
A cluster of hantavirus infections aboard the Dutch-flagged expedition cruise ship MV Hondius has killed three passengers and sickened at least five others, triggering a multinational effort to trace roughly 150 passengers and crew from 23 nationalities who have dispersed across the globe. The confirmed strain — Andes virus, the only hantavirus capable of limited human-to-human transmission — has forced the UK to plan a quarantined repatriation flight, prompted the CDC to activate a Level 3 emergency response, and raised difficult questions about how a rodent-borne pathogen from southern Argentina reached an expedition vessel crossing the Atlantic.