MADRID – Health officials in Spain confirmed Monday that a Spanish citizen quarantined at a Madrid military hospital has contracted hantavirus after being evacuated from a cruise ship earlier this month.
This represents the second confirmed infection among 14 Spanish citizens who were brought to the Spanish island of Tenerife from the luxury vessel MV Hondius. The ship was transporting approximately 150 passengers and crew members from 23 nations when health authorities first notified the World Health Organization about a cluster of serious respiratory infections on May 2.
Following the positive test result, the infected individual was transferred to an isolation ward at Gómez Ulla Hospital, according to the Health Ministry’s announcement on X. Officials emphasized that discovering this case among individuals already under quarantine “does not modify the risk situation” for the general public.
