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YouTuber Recounts Moment Captain Announces Deaths on MV Hondius

Since April 11, three passengers who were aboard the Hondius have died and five other people have been sickened after showing symptoms of the hantavirus. The Turkish YouTuber Ruhi Çenet disembarked the ship on April 24, and told The Times how staff members reacted to the first death.

Two Britons evacuated from hantavirus-hit ship ‘improving’ in hospital

7 May 2026 at 19:20

Man, 69, is in intensive care in Johannesburg, while expedition guide Martin Anstee, 56, receiving care in Netherlands

Two Britons who were medically evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship are improving, global health officials have said.

A British passenger, understood to be a 69-year-old man, was taken to South Africa on 27 April and is receiving care at a private health facility in Sandton, Johannesburg.

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© Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Health Officials Race to Track Hantavirus Cruise Ship Outbreak but Predict ‘Limited’ Spread

7 May 2026 at 22:36
A Dutch flight attendant and French national were among the latest to be tested in connection with a deadly outbreak on a cruise ship. But an analysis in South Africa showed no mutations in viral samples.
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