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The next big one won't come from the hantavirus cruise outbreak, but there are still lessons to take away from it, experts say.

While some repatriated passengers are being placed in biocontainment units, such as in France, passengers in the Netherlands are being asked to self-isolate for six weeks.

Three passengers from the MV Hondius — a Dutch couple and a German woman — have died, while others have fallen sick with the rare disease, which usually spreads among rodents.

There will be another major epidemic or pandemic in the future, but it's unlikely to stem from this outbreak.

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Three people have died in the outbreak on the luxury cruise ship, and a total of eight people are suspected to have contracted the virus.

Climate change is making landslides and tsunamis more likely in fjord regions such as Alaska's Tracy Arm.

Fernando Clavijo, the president of the Canary Islands, has opposed the Spanish government's plan to have the ship docked off the city of Tenerife.

South Africa confirmed that it identified among the victims a strain of the virus that can — in rare cases — spread among humans.

At least some cases aboard the MV Hondius are now suspected to have been caused by human-to-human transmission, WHO officials say.

About 150 people remain stuck ⁠on the ship marooned off the Cape Verde islands in the Atlantic Ocean after the deaths of three passengers.

Three people have died amid the outbreak of the virus onboard the ship, which was transporting 150 passengers and crew.

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Three people have died and three are ill after a Netherlands-based ⁠cruise ship was hit by a suspected outbreak of hantavirus.

Hantavirus is a rare but potentially deadly infection that typically spreads to humans through contact with infected rodents, with person-to-person transmission uncommon.