The Valencian oceanographer Aitana Forcén-Vázquez is one of the fourteen Spanish people traveling on the cruise ship where a possible hantavirus outbreak has been declared, which has caused three deaths during its journey through the South Atlantic, according to sources close to her confirmed to EFE.
The number of possible infected passengers on the cruise ship rises to seven, including three deaths, one patient in critical condition, and three people with mild symptoms, according to the WHO. This is the route and sequence of events followed by the MV Hondius cruise ship affected by a hantavirus outbreak:
Argentina, the country from which the cruise ship where a hantavirus outbreak was detected departed, has confirmed 41 cases of the disease so far in 2026 and reported that the current epidemiological season shows a higher circulation of the pathology compared to previous years and “above the outbreak threshold,” according to the Ministry of Health on Tuesday.
The Minister of Defense is the new protagonist of Foros de Vanguardia, in a session held this Tuesday at the MGS Auditorium. Margarita Robles will talk about defense and peace in a world full of uncertainties.
The Dutch Government has sent two medicalized air ambulances to Cape Verde that are evacuating the two passengers from the luxury cruise ship ‘Hondius’ who are in the most serious condition and supposedly infected with hantavirus, as well as a third who has begun to show symptoms, according to sources close to the matter. The three patients will be transferred to the Netherlands to receive medical care.
The European Union activates its machinery to force the White House to respect the terms of the already criticized trade agreement with the U.S.. “A pact is a pact,” warned the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, a few hours before her Trade Commissioner, Maros Sefcovic, meets with the U.S. Trade Representative, Jamieson Greer, in Paris. All this, after President Donald Trump threatened this weekend with a 25% tariff on the import of European vehicles.
When it was launched in Croatia, neither the builder nor the owner of the Hondius imagined that its name would become globally known for something so undesirable. The idea, when the keel was laid, was for the ship to stand out for having a reinforced hull capable of breaking ice up to eighty centimeters thick. That has nothing to do with conventional cruises.
Barcelonismo woke up this Monday with a bittersweet taste on its lips. Half intoxicated with happiness after celebrating the passage to the sixth consecutive Champions final, half clouded by the tears of Alexia Putellas who may have stepped on the Camp Nou for the last time this Sunday dressed in blaugrana. The culé captain’s contract ends in June and, although she has the possibility to activate the optional year of her contract, her future is farther than close to Barcelona.
Kylian Mbappé’s latest move has exhausted the patience of Real Madrid fans. A large part of the supporters (whose feelings they expressed on social media) did not like his trip to Cagliari (Italy). Despite being injured and doubtful for Sunday’s Clásico, the season has once again been disappointing and without titles, and the forward landed in Madrid, according to images from El Chiringuito, only 12 minutes before the start of the match against Espanyol (0-2). His vacation was interpreted as a lack of commitment.
The United States Army liberated the Mauthausen concentration and extermination camp 81 years ago today, where the Nazis murdered about 90,000 people through forced labor in quarries, starvation, torture, gas chambers, or experiments with direct phenol injections into the heart.