The hantavirus outbreak linked to a cruise ship traversing the South Atlantic is not over, and the world's leading health authority says it is almost certainly going to get worse before it gets better.
WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told CNN in an exclusive interview at Tenerife's Grenadilla port on 11 May 2026 that the Andes virus carries an incubation window of 'six to eight weeks,' making further infections among the MV Hondius' 147-person contingent near-certain. The warning arrived as France confirmed its first case, a woman who developed symptoms during her return flight home and tested positive on arrival, and as 18 American passengers were placed under medical surveillance across facilities in Nebraska and Atlanta.
