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A deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard the Dutch expedition cruise ship MV Hondius has killed three passengers and infected at least eight, with the Andes virus strain — the only hantavirus capable of human-to-human transmission — confirmed by WHO laboratories. As the vessel sails toward Spain's Canary Islands amid fierce local opposition, US health authorities are monitoring former passengers in at least three states, and the crisis has reignited scrutiny of cruise industry sanitation oversight following the Trump administration's gutting of the CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program.