Initially, investigators looked for mice as the source of the infection, but this may have been the wrong lead. The hantavirus outbreak detected on the cruise ship MV Hondius has eight infected individuals. Three people have died, one remains in intensive care in Johannesburg, South Africa, and another one is in a hospital in Switzerland. Given that they had all shared spaces and activities, it was believed that it might be a case of group infection, through inhaling aerosols of rodent feces, urine, or saliva. This is the most common way to become infected with hantavirus. It is possible that they all entered the same enclosed area containing mouse droppings, and inhaled the same contaminated air.

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