WHO scrambling to track 30 passengers who disembarked at St. Helena…
Alerts sent to US, Australia, Taiwan, UK, and Netherlands as travelers vanish into crowds…
Dutch flight attendant hospitalized after contact with infected passenger in Johannesburg…
The isolation of the Atlantic has officially been breached.
If the flight attendant tests positive, the “human-to-human” fear becomes a reality.
🚨 BREAKING: EUROPE ON EDGE — HANTAVIRUS CONTACT CASE EMERGES
A flight attendant in the Netherlands has been hospitalized after contact with a passenger who later died from hantavirus following a Johannesburg-linked flight.
Let that sink in.
A deadly virus case…
A live… pic.twitter.com/GM6lcRnGer— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) May 7, 2026
Dozens of passengers left hantavirus-stricken cruise ship after 1st fatality
THE HAGUE – More than two dozen passengers from at least 12 different countries left a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak on April 24 without contact tracing, nearly two weeks after the first passenger died on board, the ship operator and Dutch officials said Thursday.
The news raised concerns that the virus could spread as travelers returned home, although experts say the risk to the wider public is considered low as hantavirus isn’t easily transmitted between people.
Even so, the Dutch health ministry said a woman who was not on the ship was being tested for hantavirus and being kept in an isolated ward in an Amsterdam hospital after showing symptoms. The woman was part of a flight crew and had contact with an infected passenger on the plane, it said.
If the woman tests positive, she could be the first known person not on the MV Hondius to become infected in the outbreak.
Health authorities were monitoring people or trying to trace others who may have come into contact with cruise passengers on at least four continents.
12+ Countries including US, UK, Australia, Taiwan.
KLM Flight Attendant hospitalized in Amsterdam.
Airlink Flight (St. Helena to Joburg); 82 on board.
Andes orthohantavirus; unique for human-to-human spread.
Scattered Across Continents: The passengers who got off at St. Helena are already home. One traveler from the ship has already tested positive in Switzerland, proving the virus has officially cleared the Atlantic.
23 from Hantavirus Cruise Return Home-One Already Sick
At least 23 passengers from the hantavirus-infected cruise ship MV Hondius have already left the boat and returned home, including to the US, according to a shocking new report — and one of them has already gotten sick.
The travelers did not realize they had been exposed to the deadly virus — which has a mortality rate of up to 40% — when they left the expedition vessel during its stop at Saint Helena, a tiny island in the South Atlantic, on April 23, according to a passenger who is still aboard the ship.
“There are 23 people wandering around there, and until three days ago, no one had contacted them,” the passenger told Spanish newspaper El Pais.
Andes Strain confirmed: The rare hantavirus that spreads between people
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