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Last Updated: Sunday, May 17, 2026 at 04:46 PM
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Health authorities track hantavirus

World Health Organization officials stress the virus that spread aboard a cruise ship isn’t as transmissible as Covid or the flu are.
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A person in a hazmat suit, second right, is escorted to a ambulance from a medical aircraft said to carry some of the passengers from the cruise ship MV Hondius believed to be infected with hantavirus at Schiphol airport near Amsterdam on Wednesday. Lina Selg / AFP via Getty Images

Health authorities today were tracking down passengers who disembarked from a cruise ship linked to a hantavirus outbreak, weeks after the first death aboard the vessel. They’re also stressing that the risk to the public is low.

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