UK sends rapid response team to remote island after hantavirus cruise ship outbreak

The MV Hondius was sailing from Argentina to Antarctica and several South Atlantic islands when the outbreak began.

There are no known cases of hantavirus in the United States as of Friday morning, garnering a sense of hope stateside amid a global outbreak that has killed three people, sickened 11 and forced dozens into quarantine.

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The deaths of three cruise ship passengers during a rare hantavirus outbreak have sparked international alarm, and flashbacks to when the world tipped into the COVID pandemic six years ago.