{"id":1120,"date":"2026-05-18T22:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2026-05-18T22:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:04:26","slug":"hantavirus-stricken-cruise-ship-docks-in-the-netherlands-for-disinfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"Hantavirus-stricken cruise ship docks in the Netherlands for disinfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>ROTTERDAM, Netherlands<\/strong> | The cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak has docked at the Dutch port of Rotterdam for disinfection, wrapping up a troubled journey that put international health authorities on alert.<\/p>\n<p>The MV Hondius was still carrying 25 crew members and two medical personnel as it reached Europe\u2019s largest port on Monday morning, after its passengers disembarked on the Spanish island of Tenerife last week.<\/p>\n<p>An Associated Press journalist saw people board the boat via pier wearing white hazardous materials suits. A short distance from where the ship docked, authorities had set up white containers along the water in between a line of windmills.<\/p>\n<p>The crew will now go into quarantine, with those who cannot be immediately repatriated spending their time in quarantine in these containers.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cLuckily so far the crew has suffered no symptoms,\u201d Yvonne van Duijnhoven, the director of public health in Rotterdam told The Associated Press. Crew members will be tested upon arrival and then weekly for the duration of their quarantine.<\/p>\n<p>After everyone on board has disembarked, the ship will be decontaminated based on Dutch public health guidelines, a process that will take about three days, according to van Duijnhoven.<\/p>\n<p>She stressed that the risk to the public is very low. \u201cWe have very strict protocols to prevent virus going from the ship towards the outside world,\u201d she said. Public health officials will inspect the vessel before it is allowed to sail again.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch company that owns the ship said it doesn\u2019t foresee any changes to its operations. It has an Arctic cruise setting sail from Keflavik, Iceland, on May 29. The hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius is the first known case on a cruise ship.<\/p>\n<p>The port was asked by Dutch authorities last week if they could take in the vessel. \u201cI think it\u2019s unacceptable to say no, you\u2019re not welcome in the biggest port of Europe,\u201d the port\u2019s harbormaster, Ren\u00e9 de Vries, told AP.<\/p>\n<p>Some two dozen passengers and crew are already in quarantine in the Netherlands after arriving in the country on a series of flights over the previous two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak on the ship has reached at least 11 cases, nine of which have been confirmed by the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>Three passengers have died, including a Dutch couple who health officials believe were the first exposed to the virus while visiting South America.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Health Agency of Canada said one of the four Canadians in isolation after leaving the ship had tested positive Sunday and it would share information on the case with the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>Eighteen Americans are currently under observation at specialized healthcare facilities in the United States designed to treat people with dangerous infectious diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The Paris public hospital authority said Monday that the French cruise passenger being treated for hantavirus is not in fact treated with an artificial lung, but remains in intensive care.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, an official at Bichat Hospital told reporters that the patient was on a life-support system that pumps blood through an artificial lung. 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