香港卫生部门正向世界卫生组织索取更多关于大西洋邮轮汉坦病毒爆发的信息，同时加强预防措施以保护城市免受该罕见疾病影响。
香港卫生署卫生防护中心于周四表示，已就MV Hondius号邮轮上的汉坦病毒群集病例联系世界卫生组织。该船于4月1日从阿根廷出发。
世卫组织报告称，船上已有三人死亡，八例疑似病例中五例已获确认。首名患者于4月6日出现症状。
进一步检测显示，两例确诊病例的病毒属于安第斯基因型，这是目前已知唯一可有限人际传播的汉坦病毒类型。香港过去五年平均每年录得零至两例汉坦病毒感染。
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The World Health Organization reported on Monday nine cases of Andes virus hantavirus linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship, with seven confirmed. The vessel arrived in Spain's Tenerife last weekend, where over 90 passengers were evacuated under health supervision.
The World Health Organization has confirmed five cases and three deaths from hantavirus aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius, while stressing that the virus’s limited transmission route makes a wider outbreak unlikely.
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The World Health Organization stated that the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship poses no elevated global risk. Director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday there are no similarities to the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Three people have died and eight suspected cases are under investigation on board.
A day-long operation to repatriate passengers and crew from the MV Hondius cruise ship struck by hantavirus neared completion late Sunday with 94 people flown home from Spain’s Canary Islands. Three passengers have died from the outbreak that began after the vessel departed Argentina in April. Health officials stressed the risk to the public remains low.
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The MV Hondius cruise ship, where three passengers have died from hantavirus, is approaching Spain's Canary Islands for evacuation of most of its nearly 150 passengers.
Two French passengers on the MV Hondius described their near-normal daily life aboard the ship under international health alert, following three deaths reported since April 11.
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None of the 38 Filipino crew members on the MV Hondius are ill amid a suspected hantavirus outbreak that has killed three passengers, the Philippines' Department of Health confirmed on May 5, 2026. The ship remains in quarantine off Cape Verde with 149 people aboard as investigations continue.