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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Mark Saunokonoko

Hantavirus: what happens to cruise ship passengers now and will they quarantine?

A bus carrying passengers and crew being repatriated from the MV Hondius.
A bus carrying passengers and crew being repatriated from the MV Hondius, after an outbreak of hantavirus has killed three people and infected others. Photograph: Ryan Jenkinson/Getty Images

The complex operation to repatriate passengers and crew of the hantavirus-hit cruise ship, the MV Hondius, is almost complete.

Up to 150 people have started flying home aboard military and government planes from Spain’s Canary Islands, and the World Health Organization has recommended, but not mandated, a 42-day quarantine once they have landed.

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