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An outbreak of Andes hantavirus aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship has killed three people and infected at least eleven since April 2026, prompting global contact tracing and quarantine operations across multiple countries. Three King County, Washington residents are being monitored after possible exposure — two from sitting near an infected passenger on a plane, one from being aboard the ship — but WHO and CDC say the risk to the general public remains extremely low, and the outbreak bears no resemblance to COVID-19 in its transmission dynamics.