Vicente Soriano, UNIR Health Sciences School and Medical Center, Madrid, Spain
The World Health Organization has confirmed ten cases including three deaths of hantavirus infection on the Dutch cruise ship Hondius, which anchored in Cape Verde during the first days of May 2026. He had left on March 20 from Ushuaia, in the Argentina Tierra del Fuego. Its destination was the Canary Islands. Three weeks after leaving, a Dutch couple and a German tourist developed respiratory symptoms and died.
