#hantavirus, theme 'MV Hondius outbreak'

scienceMay 7, 202631830

A hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius has sickened multiple passengers, caused at least two deaths, and resulted in several hospitalizations including a passenger now in Zurich. Thirty passengers disembarked at St. Helena on April 24 and have been contacted by the company; Spanish and British authorities are imposing up to 45 days of quarantine for exposed travelers based on the virus's incubation window. A KLM flight attendant WHO briefly contacted one passenger has been hospitalized with hantavirus symptoms, creating concern about onward contacts. Public-health teams are racing to determine whether cases share a common environmental exposure, cabins, crew interactions, or cleaning procedures, or reflect human-to-human transmission because that distinction will change testing, isolation, and contact-tracing strategies.

Matthew Cortland (they)

@matthewcort.land

I am heartened that *state* public health officials in Georgia, Arizona & California are monitoring passengers from the MV Hondius. Because of the work of those state officials, I assess low risk to the general public at this time — but it's important we continue to pay attention 🧵

2069h ago

Dr Noor Bari

@njbbari3.bsky.social

I think that settles it. Human to human transmission. #Hantavirus

1453h ago

Dr Noor Bari30

If it’s not a totally unrelated illness that is.

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸14

And…I suppose if a cruise ship is the worst case scenario Petri dish we were able to conceive a week ago, the possibility of a working flight attendant with Hantavirus is beyond nightmare.

AuDHDeep☝🏾 🇧🇧 (Not quite a Bluesky elder)11

The virus involved in this outbreak, Andes virus, can spread from human to human. Confirmed in a 2018-2019 outbreak www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Lynda-Art-Write10

Glad I am in the habit of wearing a mask wish my family would x

Wrambbit5

Might want to start keeping better track of ship passengers once you have one in your ship’s morgue🤷🏻‍♀️ Dozens got off cruise ship dealing with deadly hantavirus outbreak after first death www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

GW3

I never doubted it once the number of cases passed the original 2ppl. Need to wait for the test results on the hostess and the guy in France to be certain, but the hostess apparently had direct contact with the woman that died on the plane.

Wear ≥Filip Filipovich Preobrazhensky 2 respirator Do Not Follow3

Yes, I heard this from the daughters this morning in Amsterdam ... they got the requisite lecture on #PrecautionaryPrinciple from me & the #Wear≥FFP2RespiratorNotMask ... especially as the younger one is flying off to a conference next week after she finishes the conference she is at tomorrow 🙄🤷‍♂️🤣

Natty S3

This is rather rare with Hantavirus? Is this new type?

Unusual Whales

@unusualwhales.bsky.social

BREAKING: Health officials are monitoring people in at least three U.S. states for potential hantavirus exposure linked to a suspected outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship, per Reuters

10812h ago

Jeniatric Millennial10

Honestly surprised they're doing anything, let alone admitting it.

Jeffrey Linback4

Dig out the n95’s again!

Kirk Colvin2

Don't horror movies start like this?

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

@drtedros.who.int

I am hosting a media briefing on #hantavirus today at 15:00h CEST. You can join and watch via @who.int and my social media channels across X, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.

525h ago

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦

@helenbranswell.bsky.social

The #hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship off the coast of Africa is a serious public health event that needs to be handled properly. But if you are having #Covid flashbacks, put those worries to rest. The risk here is to people on the ship & their close contacts. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/h...

461h ago

Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA5

I think the hysteria is because people are having covid flashbacks and don’t understand this is a very different type of virus

Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA

@krutikakuppalli.bsky.social

Right on cue. A new outbreak and immediate misinformation about “miracle cures.” Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug, not a proven treatment for #hantavirus. Being an RNA virus does not mean ivermectin works against it. Promoting unsupported therapies during an outbreak causes real harm.

432h ago

Lzvolk3

Why hasn’t her MD license been pulled? dallasexpress.com/state/texas-...

JP, The Liberty Underground (PHL)

@johnathanperk.bsky.social

I tried my best to warn people. I really did. #Hantavirus #pandemic

232h ago

Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘

@chariselee.bsky.social

Hantavirus cases linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius are growing as Health official say the virus jumped from person to person. a new case involving a French man who was not on the 35 day cruise is raising concerns that hundreds in the air and on the ground may have been exposed

2414h ago

Yaneer Bar-Yam

@yaneerbaryam.bsky.social

The MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak isn't the first Andes virus outbreak. Attached article in 2020 documents person-to-person transmission in Argentina outbreak: 34 cases, 11 deaths, four generations of human-to-human transmission. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

1918h ago

Anita Anand

@anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social

The Government of Canada is responding to the Andes Hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius. I have directed Global Affairs Consular officials to be at the port ready to meet Canadians when they disembark.

2013h ago

Will Ripley

@willripleycnn.bsky.social

Professor Joseph Allen of Harvard University’s School of Public Health tells CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront there is mounting concern the deadly Andes strain linked to the MV Hondius outbreak may be airborne w/ incubation up to 8 weeks & infected people possibly contagious before showing symptoms.

128h ago

Tania J. Spencer

@taniaspencer.bsky.social

@mvankerkhove.bsky.social, when you confidently say of #Hantavirus, "This is not the next #Covid" - may we remind you that if you treat it the same way you treated COVID (with denial, misinformation, & trademark @who.int overconfidence), then you increase the chance that it could be the next COVID.

157h ago

Violet Blue®

@violetblue.bsky.social

Updated: Twenty‑three passengers from the MV Hondius have been on land for more than two weeks. Post includes full list of ports the ship visited, why the US isn't involved in WHO data sharing despite two US passengers now under monitoring in Georgia, and more: www.patreon.com/posts/hantav...

1312h ago

Nicolas Berrod

@nicolasberrod.bsky.social

🛳️ On sait désormais que 30 passagers ont débarqué à Sainte-Hélène le 24 avril. Pas de Français parmi eux, mais notamment la femme du 1er mort (elle-même décédée peu après) et un passager désormais hospitalisé à Zurich 👇🏻 Tous ont été contactés par la compagnie. #hantavirus