The woman was among five French passengers allowed to leave the vessel on Sunday. However, after returning to France, her condition deteriorated rapidly.

All passengers and crew aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius have now been evacuated following an outbreak of hantavirus that left three people dead and several others infected, while health authorities continue monitoring passengers who have begun showing symptoms after returning home.

Remote expedition cruises to destinations like Antarctica and the Arctic are booming, but the deadly hantavirus aboard MV Hondius is a reminder of unique risks.

A 2012 episode of The Simpsons featuring a 'Pandora virus' on a cruise ship is being touted by fans as a prediction of the MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak.

MOH says no hantavirus cases have been reported in Malaysia so far, but monitoring, ship sanitation inspections, and preparedness measures are being strengthened following the MV Hondius cluster.

A popular YouTuber who was onboard the MV Hondius cruise when the hantavirus outbreak was spreading has expressed horror that he was allowed to go to a packed wedding more than three weeks after the first infected passenger died.

The Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius left Ushuaia in southern Argentina on April 1 for what was supposed to be a relatively uneventful 24-day journey ending in Cape Verde. But the ship was hurled into global headlines a month later as it became the centre of a ...

The hantavirus from the MV Hondius outbreak has been sequenced from samples taken from one of the infected individuals. The results confirm that it is the Andes strain, the most virulent and contagious,