The total number of confirmed and probable cases of hantavirus onboard the MV Hondius cruise ship has risen to 11, including two people confirmed to have died from the virus and one person who remains suspected to have died from the virus.
Passengers disembarked the cruise ship in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, to be transferred to charter flights back to their home countries.
On Monday, 16 American cruise ship passengers arrived at the University of Nebraska Medical Center; 15 are in the quarantine unit and one person who tested positive is in the biocontainment unit, officials said. Two other American cruise ship passengers were flown to Atlanta for "further assessment and care," officials said.
Two residents of King County, Washington, are being monitored at home after potentially being exposed to hantavirus, the Seattle and King County Public Health Department said.
The two residents sat on a plane near an ill passenger from the cruise ship; that passenger was removed from the plane and later tested positive, officials said.
The two residents don’t have symptoms and are being monitored, officials said.
"Currently, no one in King County has symptoms of hantavirus and there are no cases of the virus in King County," the health department said. "The risk to the public remains low."
A resident of King County is also among the cruise ship passengers now being monitored at the quarantine center in Nebraska, the officials added.
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25 crew, 2 medical staff remain on ship; no one has symptoms
Twenty-five crew members and two medical staffers remain on the MV Hondius cruise ship, which is en route to the Netherlands, Oceanwide Expedition said.
The hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius leaves the port of Granadilla de Abona on the island of Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands, May 11, 2026.
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No one on board has hantavirus symptoms but the “medical staff will continue to monitor throughout the remainder of the voyage,” Oceanwide Expedition said.
The ship is expected to arrive on Sunday or Monday. The crew members will follow quarantine procedures when they disembark, Oceanwide Expedition said.
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Positive patient in France presenting 'severe form,' in 'serious condition'
The French cruise ship passenger who tested positive for hantavirus “is presenting a severe form and is currently in intensive care in a serious condition,” French Health Minister Stephanie Rist said in French at a news conference on Tuesday.
She "has the most severe form of cardiopulmonary presentation, and she is receiving what is called, or rather what is the final stage of supportive care: extracorporeal circulation for artificial oxygenation," Risk said. "She has a lung-machine, a blood diversion, which we hope will allow her to get through this difficult period while her lung, which is being attacked by this virus and the damage to the vascular wall, recovers."
The other four French nationals who were taken off the ship were hospitalized for monitoring and they tested negative and "are doing well," she said.
Rist stressed that only people who were on the ship have tested positive.
Port vessels accompany the MV Hondius as it departs the Granadilla Port after all passengers were evacuated on May 11, 2026 in Tenerife, part of the Canary Islands, Spain.
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Through contact tracing, Rist said “eight French nationals were identified on the flight between Saint Helena and Johannesburg. A second flight between Johannesburg and Amsterdam was carrying French nationals with a lower level of risk, in so far as a patient was present but was rapidly disembarked, which limited the exposure of travelers.”
“In total, 22 contact cases have been identified in France,” she said. “They have all been contacted, tested, hospitalized or are in the process of being hospitalized and are subject to rigorous health monitoring.”
-ABC News’ Othon Leyva
3 hours and 21 minutes ago
Symptomatic cruise ship passenger in Atlanta tests negative
The cruise ship passenger at an Atlanta hospital who reported mild symptoms has tested negative for hantavirus, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. This passenger’s partner is also being monitored at the Emory University facility, officials said.
The exterior of Emory University Hospital, where two passengers from the cruise ship that had an hantavirus outbreak, are being monitored and treated, in Atlanta, Georgia, May 11, 2026.
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Meanwhile, the 16 passengers who are being monitored in Nebraska do not have symptoms, including the person in the biocontainment unit who previously tested positive, HHS said.
