Josep Corbella: “There is no risk of hantavirus spreading uncontrollably around the world”

Josep Corbella: “There is no risk of hantavirus spreading uncontrollably around the world”

The journalist from La Vanguardia specialized in science and health, Josep Corbella, shares with readers the status of the evolution of hantavirus cases detected on the MV Hondius cruise ship. As he emphasizes, this is a virus “that has great difficulty transmitting between people,” so “we can be calm, because there is no risk that hantavirus will spread uncontrollably around the world.”

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Argentina: out of the WHO and with the highest hantavirus case rate

Argentina: out of the WHO and with the highest hantavirus case rate

Although Argentina formalized its exit from the World Health Organization (WHO) last March 19, a year after having communicated its intention to leave this organization, the hantavirus outbreak detected on the Hondius cruise ship, which had departed from the Argentine town of Ushuaia, does not have a direct relationship with the resignation to coordinate health efforts with the rest of the countries, because there has not been enough time for the negative consequences that it may have in the longer term to develop. Already last year, Argentina was the country in the region that had reported the highest number of hantavirus infection cases, with 66, from November to January 2025.

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This is the isolation unit where the Spaniards from the Hondius will spend quarantine

This is the isolation unit where the Spaniards from the Hondius will spend quarantine

The 14 Spanish passengers traveling aboard the Hondius will be evacuated at the port of Granadilla de Abona, south of Tenerife, from where they will be flown to Madrid to be admitted to the Central Defense Hospital Gómez Ulla. All of them will undergo quarantine in a special isolation unit of this hospital center that was adapted after the 2014 Ebola crisis. Before flying from Tenerife South-Reina Sofía airport to the peninsula, the travelers will be medically evaluated in the Canary Islands.

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The ‘Hondius’ is now heading to the Canary Islands after evacuating the three sick to Amsterdam

The ‘Hondius’ is now heading to the Canary Islands after evacuating the three sick to Amsterdam

The luxury cruise ship Hondius, affected by a hantavirus outbreak, will finally dock in the Canary Islands, where it is scheduled to arrive next Sunday at twelve noon with more than 140 people on board, who do not show symptoms of the disease. The three sick people on the ship, one of them the doctor and in serious condition, were evacuated yesterday on two medical planes and transferred to Amsterdam, where they are receiving the necessary medical care.

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