ROTTERDAM: A luxury liner at the center of an outbreak of hantavirus reached the Dutch port of Rotterdam on Monday, marine tracking sites said, where authorities prepared quarantine arrangements for the 23 crew and two medical staff remaining on board. The Dutch-flagged MV Hondius had been carrying around 150 passengers and crew from 23 countries when a cluster of severe respiratory illnesses was first reported to the World Health Organization on May 2. Three people — a Dutch couple and a German national — have died since the start of the outbreak.

The remaining crew and medical staff aboard the ship at the center of the hantavirus outbreak will disembark at the Port of Rotterdam and the vessel will be disinfected.

People in personal protective suits interact with a member of the crew on the cruise ship MV Hondius, which was affected by a hantavirus outbreak, after it arrived at the Port of…