A French woman infected in the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship is critically ill and being treated with an artificial lung, a doctor at the Paris hospital caring for the sickened passenger said Tuesday.

Five passengers of the MV Hondius will be quarantined in Paris "until further notice", France's prime minister says.

'Of the five French nationals, one person developed symptoms during the journey' and her condition 'deteriorated overnight,' after which 'the tests came back positive for…