Spanish passenger on MV Hondius tests positive for hantavirus after being evacuated from cruise ship

A Spanish cruise passenger who was evacuated from the MV Hondius ship has tested positive for hantavirus weeks after the deadly outbreak killed three others on the luxury liner.

The latest case of the rodent-borne disease was detected while the infected traveler was quarantining under clinical surveillance with 13 other Spaniards aboard the hantavirus-ridden Dutch vessel at Gómez Ulla Hospital in Madrid, according to the Spanish Health Ministry.

The passengers have been in isolation since being evacuated on May 10. 

Officials said the stricken patient was in “close contact” with an ill traveler on the doomed ship.

“A new positive hantavirus case has been confirmed via PCR in one of the individuals remaining in preventive quarantine at Gómez Ulla Hospital,” the health ministry said on X Monday.