Cape Verde & World Health Organization

Cape Verde: Cape Verde authorities initially denied permission for ill passengers to disembark from the MV Hondius, complicating medical evacuations. Negotiations are ongoing for medical transfers and disembarkation.

World Health Organization: World Health Organization is coordinating the international response to the hantavirus outbreak on MV Hondius, providing guidance, confirming cases, and assessing public health risks.

Cape Verde: Cape Verde is where the cruise ship with Hantavirus infections is currently docked, making it a focal point of the outbreak.

World Health Organization: World Health Organization assessed the global public health risk as low and advised countries to strengthen surveillance.

Cape Verde: Cape Verde refused to receive the MV Hondius, leading to diplomatic challenges and the ship remaining offshore its capital Praia before Spain intervened.

World Health Organization: The World Health Organization is providing guidelines and recommendations for containing the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius, emphasizing a low global public health risk but cautioning about the virus's long incubation period.

Cape Verde: Cape Verde was a stop for the MV Hondius, where three infected individuals were evacuated earlier in the week.

World Health Organization: The World Health Organization is coordinating the evacuation and providing assurances to the public regarding the low risk of wider hantavirus spread.

Cape Verde: The MV Hondius departed from Cape Verde before the hantavirus outbreak emerged.

World Health Organization: World Health Organization is coordinating the international response to the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius, classifying all aboard as 'high-risk' contacts and providing guidance for monitoring and disembarkation.

Cape Verde: Cape Verde is where a cruise ship with a deadly hantavirus outbreak remains offshore, with patients being evacuated from there.

World Health Organization: The World Health Organization is monitoring a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship and notes Argentina's high incidence of the disease.