Six passengers from Australia and New Zealand will be quarantined at a facility in Perth after they were stranded on a cruise ship exposed to the deadly hantavirus.

Four Australian citizens and one permanent resident from the MV Hondius to fly home via Perth on Tuesday

Six passengers from Australia and New Zealand will be quarantined at a facility in Perth after they were stranded on a cruise ship exposed to the deadly hantavirus.

Die Strapazen für vom Hantavirus-Ausbruch betroffene Schiffspassagiere gehen weiter. In Australien wartet eine wochenlange Quarantäne. Die vier Betroffenen in Deutschland sollen…

Health minister Mark Butler says six people from MC Hondius plus flight crew from charter plane to be isolated for weeks

Three of the Australians are New South Wales residents, and two are from Queensland

Six Australians on board a cruise ship exposed to the deadly hantavirus have departed The Netherlands.

Health minister Mark Butler says six passengers who have tested negative for hantavirus will land in Western Australia on Friday

An aircraft and crew will arrive in the Netherlands on Thursday to repatriate six people to Australia.

The plane is expected to arrive on Friday at an air force base in Perth, near the 500-bed quarantine facility where the six will be required to stay for at least three weeks.

SYDNEY, May 14 — Six passengers who sailed on a hantavirus-affected cruise will fly to Australia from the Netherlands on Thursday while dressed in full protective gear, the...