The cruise ship MV Hondius (Oceanwide Expeditions) which has been trying to find a port following an outbreak of Hantavirus, will be permitted by Portugal to transfer passengers at the island of Tenerife. There are 17 Americans on board who will be transferred by the CDC from Tenerife to the National Quarantine Center at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. Once there, they will remain in isolation for 42-days under observation.
(VIA CBS) – World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrived in Tenerife Saturday to personally oversee the painstaking process of evacuating more than 100 people from a cruise ship dealing with an outbreak of the rare and deadly hantavirus.
Addressing the people of the Canary Islands, where the ship will anchor off the coast of its largest island, the WHO chief said the public’s concern is legitimate after what the world experienced in 2020 during the global coronavirus pandemic.
“This disease is not COVID,” Tedros said, reiterating a letter he wrote earlier Saturday. “The risk to the local population is low.”
Tedros said that the nature of the hantavirus is not the same as the coronavirus, but “that trauma is still in our minds.”
“That’s why also I came here,” he said. “To be on the side of the people because saying things from far could be easy. But I had to change my plans to come here because this is very, very important to the whole world and to the people of Tenerife as well.”
Eight people on the cruise ship had confirmed or suspected cases of the hantavirus and three people have died, the WHO said on Friday. None of the 147 people currently on board, including 60 crew members, are symptomatic, according to Oceanwide Expeditions, which owns the vessel.
Tedros estimated Saturday that there will be six evacuation flights headed for the EU and four for non-EU countries.
There are 17 Americans on the MV Hondius, according to Oceanwide Expeditions, who will be taken off the ship in a small boat, taken to shore and immediately to a plane on the runway waiting for them. The plane, provided by the U.S. government with oversight from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will take the Americans to the National Quarantine Center at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, according to the CDC.
“I’m sure they’re very anxious to get home, but (we need) to make sure they do that in the most safe way possible,” Maria van Kerkhove, WHO’s acting director of the Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention, said at a press conference on Saturday.
Each country with passengers on board the ship will proceed with a similar evacuation to awaiting planes, according to the Spanish Health Ministry.
The WHO said it was recommending each country keep the passengers removed from the ship in isolation for 42 days from the last point of exposure to the virus. (Read More)
Just another reason to avoid cruise ships.
Floating germ factories.
Especially concerning when this virus comes from Rats urine and fecal matter.
The rat byproduct came from an onshore tour in Argentina.
Test labs.
This may be a better solution than locking everybody in the U.S. down inside their home, force them to wear a mask and making them lose their job if they don’t comply.
As if forced quarantine or nationwide lockdown are the only options?
Exactly 👍
Apparently those are the only two options AI can come up with.
Right on cue the bucket deploys.
I wish the ill well.
There is not enough money in the world to pay me to ever get on one of these floating Petri dishes.
That’s one thing, but the idea that I’m stuck and can’t leave when I want is so unappealing. My friends who go on cruises say the ships are huge and there is so much to do, but that’s a no for me dawg.
Just what the Globalist Cabal needs right now, another fake pandemic.
Tedros, Tedros…hmm.
The name sound familiar.
Ship all their as*ess to
Kwajalein Island. Have them sit on the beach, have a Corona, and enjoy the sunshine.
Isn’t there something in the Atlantic that could be used? That is a long flight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwajalein_Atoll
Never been on a cruise ship. When I look at those, I think of them as huge floating barges charging too much for everything and taking too much time to get to each place you want to see. And when you do get that place, there are too many people crowding everywhere and I don’t see that as any fun at all. Add in all the stories about viral outbreaks, legionaire’s disease, and all the rest, and I say nope, I don’t need it and don’t want it. When I go on overseas trips, I prefer to go it on my own, mostly using trains to get around and sometimes renting a car, and just setting my own schedule. Easier to avoid crowds as well.
As for this hantavirus matter, is it just me or does it seem like the WHO is trying to ride this into greater public acceptance of them after President Trump withdrew the U.S. from membership?
Down island the borntheres say
“de tourons come down de ship and by de teeshirts, get drinked up, and go back. Dat is what dey do.”
They don’t even look seaworthy to me! They look like skyscrapers trying to look like ships.
Can their captains steer those behemoths with great skill through the bounding main in a storm, around mountains of water like Anthony Quayle in “The Guns of Navarone”?
https://youtu.be/DDiYPW4yxU4?t=2386
one of 1000 reasons NOT not go on a cruse….
What are the chances someone “escapes” their quarantine and the crazies try a super-covid redux?
Pretty good I say!
Fear porn alive and thriving. My question is…. Who pays for the 17 Americans? Would it not be cheaper and safer for the world in general to leave EVERYONE on the boat for 45 days and drop supplies? If you have the means to travel to Antarctica, you need to assume the risk of international travel… Each and every person should be billed. I mean, we can’t even transport infected monkeys in our own country… I think it was Alabama or somewhere south that a transport crashed and monkeys had to be tracked down and shot.
WHO…CDC..Fauchi..spit
As I recall it is spread by rodent urine. That ship must be filthy. They need to get everyone off of it as soon as they can, then burn the thing.
This is a different strain. Supposedly the first two who died, caught it in Argentina bird-watching at a trash dump. This strain is human-to-human transmissable, unfortunately
I guess they want to get the folks off to clean the boat (and if it’s on board, folks still exposed if they stay)……but I doubt the boat will ever sail again.
It will. They will clean it up and change the name.
Look Who’s Back With Another One
Why can’t they quarantine them on a hospital ship that takes 42 days to get back to the states this is nuts to bring them back to middle America
They’re Americans, we should do everything possible for them.
I can recall Obama bringing in an African with E-bola. Wasn’t our problem.
Certainly that will be the “consensus” of the Globalist UniParty Deep State.
I would respectfully disagree.
Insurance is available for people that travel international.
Dear Globalists,
That you expect us to believe there is a suddenly new strain of hantavirus that is suddenly transmittable via humans is incredible and laughable. It won’t work. Y’all shot your wads on the covid hoax.
I get that there are Trillions At Stake, but yeah…. GFY.
Sincerely,
America.
Thank you!!
You’re welcome. 😁
And suddenly there is a patent allocated for an mRNA based hantavirus “vaccine” granted to….Bill Gates’ Morderna.
And just as suddenly…and “coincidentally”…the WHO is advising not to take Ivermectin.
Which Mary Talley Bowden, MD…she of the righteous fight for this drug and against the forces which propagandized the public that it was of no use whatsoever… has stated it would effective in treating those who contract it.
A simple reminder.
And when everyone is off they might as well just burn and sink that ship.
Nothing new.
Hantavirus is spread by rodents.
Gene Hackman’s wife/caregiver died from it a little over a year ago in rural New Mexico. Believed infected from rodent feces.
This ain’t nut’in’ new. Just more fear mongering and it remains to be seen how much they will promote it.
“Hantavirus is a rare but serious rodent-borne disease present in Kansas, with cases occasionally reported, including in the western part of the state where the deer mouse (the primary carrier) is prevalent. While most U.S. cases are concentrated in the Four Corners region, Kansas has reported a small number of cases over the last few decades.”
😉🇺🇲
More cats problem solved 🙂
Unfortunately cats can get the virus and spread it too
Floating prisons.
And another one.
“Another cruise ship nightmare is making headlines and this time, more than 100 passengers and crew members reportedly fell ill aboard the Caribbean Princess during a norovirus outbreak.”
Who cleans these ships? Sounds like no one does.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/100-passengers-crew-stricken-highly-contagious-norovirus-caribbean/
I think that if some enterprising microbiologist type, (not KJB, LOL) researched did a comparative study…of cleaning hospitals and cruise ships-techniques, staff procedures, cleaning compounds used…we might find a common denominator, regarding infectious disease and perhaps a real solution to the problems in both places.
Gross. I rode bike to port this morning looking at all the tacky people preparing to board ships. Cootyville. Save your money and see America. It’s easy to see where this is headed.
Making air travel available to the unwashed masses, probably increased airline profits. Cruises used to smaller and very expensive, and that too, became a big money maker as the older American cruise lines sold out to other countries and became more of an industrial endeavor…cargo and tankers…with cruising in those huge ships, often called ‘puddle jumpers’.
I mean, is there much of a difference between SWA or Carnival?
I wonder if it’s a coincidence that this is happening in the 2nd Trump Admin… 🤔
But, then… I wonder when the President is going to acknowledge that “Warp Speed” was wrong, on any number of levels.
Ah….. I see the “flags” kicking off already.
Lol whatever. 😂
So close to midterms also. Funny that!
It’s Hantavirus season already???
I still had my Monkeypox decorations up!
My motto will be:
“Canta Hanta”.
Can’t, nope, not today or tomorrow, not ever.
The irony of the ‘isolation’ and quarantine of the individuals involved…
6 weeks to flatten the curve?
Side note…have been sick for a while with a thingy much like covid only not severe but the symptoms are difficult….I restarted my Zinc….which seems to help alleviate the coughing etc….within 36 hours I noticed a massive improvement. I think its “long covid”…
What a bunch of BS…all of it!
Tedros 🙄
Nice grandstanding and trying to give relevance to the global WHO.
Sit down and get those people off that boat!
Seriously don’t fall for this crap! 💩
Tedros has been begging for 💰💰. Nothing like a new “communicable” disease to drom up cash!
Did they search Tedros for vials?
I just heard that upon arrival there, they are allowed to go home.
Been on MANY cruises some with thousands of….. sailors. 😎
But I would never set foot on a civilian cruise ship. Nope…..
Covidiots are still wearing masks and bragging to each other about when they had covid.
Yes I witnessed this behavior recently in Florida.
Makes their miserable little lives meaningful.
You can bet they will greet this news with a near orgasmic thrill.
BOHICA!
I have noticed an uptick in mask wearing idiots roaming freely around north Texas.
“Once there, they will remain in isolation for 42-days under observation.”
What is going to be left of their life when they get out, if they had to go back to work after the Cruise/vacation?
Here we go again! They really need to come up with a different script. Oh wait, the sheeple learned NOTHING 5 years ago. Sundance, expect better out of you than just “another reason to avoid cruise ships”… Seriously now.
Evidently this is the guy who started this whole thing? He was bird watching in some garbage dump.
‘Patient Zero’ in deadly hantavirus cruise ship outbreak was Dutch ornithologist Leo Schilperoordhttps.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/09/world-news/hantavirus-patient-zero-was-dutch-ornithologist-leo-schilperoord/
Cruise ships are not the main issue; crowds of unknown people are the issue.
Cruise ships gather people from all over the world with all sorts of issues and living in close confines then becomes problematic.
However, air travel, gathering in crowded airport lounges, attending inside events, etc. all comes with a risk.
Live you best life and make choices as wisely as you can but never rule something out totally until you calculate the risk involved.
Of course, when I travel, I use hand sanitizer on everything and avoid touching my face unless I know my hands are clean. Sometimes in planes; I use a mask to sleep more comfortably.
IMO….for what it is worth.
Best comment I’ve read on this page so far.
NEWS FLASH!
Hanta virus escapes from National Quarantine Center !!
Top men are investigating.
When in danger,
When in doubt, Run in circles,
Scream and shout!
I remember watching the The Poseidon Adventure when I was a kid. I have Know desire to go on any cruise ship.
I LOVED that movie. Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelly Winters.
Thanks for that flashback Mr Fox of the Blue Water variety.
🤓
Gross. My worst nightmare. Being trapped on a boat with filth. 🤢
Well, at least they didn’t try to quarantine all the passengers. Are they trying for another plandemic? Treat only the sick and not the entire world. Thankful US no longer a member of WHO
Suspicious Cat is on the lookout…
Geez, how surreal. Gateway Pundit is reporting the source of origin is a Dutch birdwatcher guy who toured a “massive rat-infested landfill” in Argentina. Now, who’d want to do that???