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The United States is closely monitoring the concern with U.S. travelers connected board the luxury cruise vessel that was deed by a hantavirus outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said connected Wednesday (May 6, 2026).
Three radical — a Dutch mates and a German national — person died successful the outbreak connected the MV Hondius. Eight people, including a Swiss citizen, are suspected to have contracted the virus, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Hantavirus usually spreads done interaction with infected rodents and human-to-human transmission is uncommon.
“The Department of State is leading a coordinated, whole-of-government response including nonstop interaction with passengers, diplomatic coordination, and engagement with home and planetary wellness authorities,” the CDC said successful a statement.
“The risk to the American nationalist is extremely debased astatine this time,” the CDC added.
People successful astatine slightest 3 U.S. States were being monitored for imaginable hantavirus infections aft the outbreak connected the MV Hondius, though nary had shown signs of illness, the New York Times reported earlier connected Wednesday (May 6, 2026).
Georgia is monitoring 2 residents, portion California is monitoring an undisclosed fig of residents who had besides been connected the ship, the newspaper said.
The Georgia and California departments of nationalist health did not instantly respond to requests for comment.
The Arizona Department of Health Services said successful an emailed connection to Reuters that it was monitoring 1 nonmigratory who was a rider connected the vessel and that the idiosyncratic was not symptomatic.
