The head of the World Health Organization has arrived in Spain prior to the arrival of the Hantavirus-hit cruise ship

Leader of Canary Islands government says healthy passengers could leave ship in Cape Verde; Briton, Dutch and German evacuated

The ship's doctor is among those believed to be infected. The ship itself is headed to Spain.

A cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak will reach the Spanish island of Tenerife "within three days", with the evacuation of passengers to start from May 11, Spain said…

The sickness starts with symptoms including a fever and chills and can quickly become life-threatening

WHO warns the number of cases could rise due to the long incubation period of the virus, but said the overall public health risk was low

Here are key takeaways from a WHO briefing on the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday that additional hantavirus infections linked to a cruise ship outbreak cannot be ruled out, as health...

More than a dozen countries have been linked to the hantavirus outbreak, as the WHO confirms five cases of the disease. Alex Croft reports

Spanish authorities on Friday were preparing to receive more than 140 passengers and crew members on board a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands.

WHO chief visits Tenerife to coordinate evacuation amid hantavirus outbreak on MV Hondius, raising international health concerns.

The head of the World Health Organization has arrived in Spain prior to the arrival of the Hantavirus-hit cruise ship

Three people have died since the outbreak, and five passengers who left the ship are infected with hantavirus.

"This is not another Covid," Tedros Ghebreyesus tells islanders before MV Hondius docks on Sunday.

Some 22 British passengers and crew on board the MV Hondius ship are expected to reach Tenerife

The World Health Organization says Hondius passengers will disembark in groups in Tenerife, Spain, before taking flights home amid hantavirus outbreak.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted that WHO experts on the ground are working together with the Spanish Health Ministry

The British national had been on board the cruise ship MV Hondius that is now being evacuated off Tenerife

This is the moment the first Hantavirus-hit cruise ship passengers disembarked the vessel in off the island of Tenerife. Spanish health officials described the situation as…

The British passengers will have to self-isolate for 45 days

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