Evacuated passengers from a hantavirus-affected cruise ship face health monitoring after one tests positive and another shows symptoms.
Passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship began flying home aboard military and government planes after the vessel anchored in the Canary Islands, with one American testing positive and a French traveller developing symptoms for the pathogen aboard their separate aircraft.
One of the 17 American passengers evacuated from the MV Hondius tested positive for the hantavirus but is not showing any symptoms, U.S. health officials said late on Sunday (May 10, 2026).
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