Hondius Count Rises as Andes Contact Tracing Widens
Wednesday, May 13, 2026 · 5 min
Investigators are treating the Hondius cluster less like a panic story than a long-incubation contact-tracing problem: 11 cases, three deaths, no cases beyond passengers so far, and the Andes strain’s rare person-to-person spread keeping exposed contacts under watch.
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Investigators are treating the Hondius cluster less like a panic story than a long-incubation contact-tracing problem: 11 cases, three deaths, no cases beyond passengers so far, and the Andes strain’s rare person-to-person spread keeping exposed contacts under watch.
In this episode
- Hantavirus outbreak grows to 11 cases, 9 confirmed — CIDRAP
Hantavirus outbreak grows to 11 cases, 9 confirmed | CIDRAP # Hantavirus outbreak grows to 11 cases, 9 confirmed News brief Topics Share Copied to clipboard AcfiPress Noticias Canarias, CC BY 4.0/Wikimedia Commons A Spanish passenger on the MV Hondius cruise ship who was in quarantine at a military hospital in Madrid is now confirmed to have hantavirus, raising the outbreak total to 11 cases,…
- Step Back — What makes the Andes strain different from the hantaviruses people may have heard about in the U.S.—especially its rare person-to-person spread—and what does that actually mean for passengers, crew, and contacts being traced after the MV Hondius cluster?
Background sources
- Questions and answers on the hantavirus outbreak in a cruise ship — Europa
- Hantavirus cluster linked to cruise ship travel, Multi-country — Who
- What doctors know about how the Andes hantavirus spreads | CNN — Brenda Goodman
- How easily does the Andes hantavirus spread? What to know after cruise ship outbreak — Nbcnews
- Andes virus on the MV Hondius cruise ship: what we know about this rare and potentially fatal hantavirus | — Pasteur