Virus Outbreak on Atlantic Cruise Ship
Tuesday, 2026/05/05107 words2 minutes461 reads
Three people died on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean. A British person is very sick in a hospital. The ship is called MV Hondius. It has 149 people on it.
Doctors think the sickness is hantavirus. This virus comes from mice. People can get it from mouse waste. It makes breathing very hard. The ship left Argentina three weeks ago. Now it is near Cape Verde.
Two workers on the ship are also sick. One is British and one is Dutch. They need help from doctors. The ship cannot go to land yet. The captain is talking to local officials about what to do next.
