This aerial view shows health personnel assisting patients onto a boat from the cruise ship MV Hondius, while stationary off the port of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, on May 6, 2026. Evacuations were taking place on May 6, 2026 from a cruise ship stricken with a deadly outbreak of hantavirus, the World Health Organization said, as experts confirmed a rare strain that can be transmitted between humans.Three people, two crew members and one other person, thought to be infected with the virus were being taken off the MV Hondius, anchored off Cape Verde, the WHO said | Photo Credit: AFP
The World Health Organization said on Wednesday it had not been notified of any changes to the Andes strain of hantavirus found on a cruise ship that would make it more transmissible.
"We haven't been notified of any changes, of any changes in the sequence itself, to indicate that," Maria Van Kerkhove, Director of Epidemic and Pandemic management at the World Health Organisation in Geneva, told Reuters.
Published - May 06, 2026 07:21 pm IST
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