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Inside the Tenerife Operation: How Spain Is Contact-Tracing 147 Travellers from MV Hondius
Spanish public-health authorities have spent 72 hours assembling a multilingual contact-tracing operation for 147 returning passengers and crew from 23 nationalities. A walk through the logistics, the clinical pathway and the first secondary case.
MV Hondius Outbreak, 13 May Update: First Secondary Case Confirmed in Tenerife
Spain has confirmed a household contact of a returning MV Hondius passenger has tested positive for Andes virus. WHO updates case totals to seven confirmed; ECDC and CDC maintain a very-low population risk classification.
The 2026 MV Hondius Hantavirus Outbreak: What We Know So Far
A working timeline of the Andes virus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius, what investigators have confirmed, and what remains unanswered as passengers return home and the first secondary case is confirmed.
Hantavirus on Cruise Ships: The New Frontier of Outbreak Investigation
Expedition cruises take small numbers of travellers to remote places and bring them back with stories - and sometimes pathogens. Here is what the MV Hondius outbreak teaches us about the new geography of infectious-disease risk.