The cruise ship MV Hondius (Oceanwide Expeditions) which has been trying to find a port following an outbreak of Hantavirus, will be permitted by Spain 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.
Yep that’s what you were told..
To a dump no less….
Test labs.
Ships are floating rat factories
or get thrown overboard by your souse.
of a spouse.
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.
Or this may be the early scare narrative of another Scamdemic leaving up to the midterms?
why move infected people around?
treat on board!
There is no treatment for Hantavirus
Its a decent bet the Zelenko protocol will work, actually. It’s a single stranded RNA, encapsulated virus, just like Sars-CoV2.
Maybe we can offer it to the 17 and see what happens.
Right to try, in place.
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.
I agree, my hard rule is that never go anywhere that I can’t leave if I choose to…
No cruise ships, no aircraft, no submarines, no spacecraft.
In the past, I’ve been in places where there are people that are so obnoxious that I have no choice but to leave.
In the past, I’ve been on overseas flights stuck in a seat next to someone who won’t shut up.
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
Johnson Atoll. That’s where they did nuke tests and then biowarfare and nerve gas testing. It’s 750nmi away from Hawaii with any other land thousands of miles away.
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
Like hospitals, ships are filthy. The hold where food is stored is full of rats, birds, and bugs.
Apparently a passenger caught it when he visited a dump (no idea why, and he is deceased), and this was the one strain that can spread via human to human contact. So yes, rodents, but apparently not on the ship.
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.
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.
Moderna stock is suddenly up, by something like 100 percent.
I wonder if we could do a check for which Congresscritters bought MRNA stock in the last ninety days.
That public information should be available for each member, Alex.
Should be…
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
How?
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?
All ships have rat problems, even the U.S Navy
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.
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”…
Praying for you~
LOL !!!
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!
Well one thing for certain…
The WHO and their satanic globalist attempt to rope every country in the world into their monstrous international treaty with it as the final say on treatments and diktats via their legal, dictatorial say has no authority in America.
First on his 3rd term agenda was President Trump’s executive decision to give notice that the US was withdrawing from the WHO. After the requisite wait time following, I am relieved that the job is done.
We are no longer a member.
If this new scare tactic has any legs, it will be interesting to observe if nations which are still in it take their marching orders from the reprehensible “health”terrorist Tedros.
Specifically…
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…..
You triggered a memory or two…submarines were pretty clean…(except for that nuclear submarine odor that impregnates clothing and does not ever wash out…ever! It is immortal as you well know. I used to make my husband unpack the sea bag and leave his stuff on the patio, ‘to air out’…which it never did…(Key and Pulaski).
When I was a munchkin, my dad did a few merchant marine gigs on The SS United States, early 60’s…He loved that ship as only a seagoing mariner can love a ship…
One sunny Sunday, after church, he took mom and me down to the docks in NYC…and we had a mini tour…I distinctly remember that engine room (where else would the Chief Engineer take his family on a tour? I did get to go in the play room, but was not allowed to play with any of the toys)–I digress….
That Big U’s engine room was squeaky clean as I compared it now, in my memory, to the Tugboat Arajain’s engine room, 15 years later.
That smell is amine from the scrubbers keeping the air clean. And you right, it seems to never go away
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.
Denton, back in the day, was pretty liberal…two universities in the town…I was there the year they wanted to vote out the dry county idea and the town’s residents were upset because the college kids could vote…’76 I think….
Minnesotastan has never fully rid itself of mask wearing idiots.
Or corrupt idiots, or leftist idiots, which are all pretty much one in the same.
“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?
Gotta isolate them for the access to their ‘immunity’?/s
I can see the ads on TV once the clearance is given for class action lawsuits…”Did you lose your job in the Hanta cruise outbreak of ’26, did you lose your house because you could not work? Please call Dewey, Scrum and Howe at u812 before the funds dry up”
They are making the cruise ship into a floating lazaretto.
It would make excellent target practice, after the people are gone.
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.
It is his “House”, and you are a guest.
How about some couth & respect.
You are welcome for the reminder.
Except he’s right.
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/
And his ornithologist wife got off the ship and flew with his body to Johannesburg where she died at the airport.
Yea I don’t think she got it from “patient” zero, who spent the day at the dump.
That is – not buying the human to human transmission, what are the odds it didn’t travel with him on his clothes, shoes, backpack maybe set on the ground that she was also around.
Did he come in contact with any of the other victims-I bet he did-without changing his clothes?
Inquiring minds want to know.
They work together and have published some articles about their travels.
When the Schilperoords returned to Argentina on March 27, they visited a landfill four miles outside the city of Ushuaia.
So he came down with hantavirus on the cruise ship, and she came down with hantavirus at the airport. So everyone on the airplane from Argentina to South Africa was potentially exposed to hantavirus.
Ushuaia, Argentina is on the island of Tierra del Fuego. It’s supposed to be the southernmost city in the world, and is known as “The end of the world.”
There is also a huge national park nearby which is a famous place for birdwatching and observing other Antarctic wildlife.
I wonder what Roger Tory Peterson would say about the location being examined? Oh well, over my skillset.
https://www.nwf.org/Magazines/National-Wildlife/1996/A-Tribute-to-Roger-Tory-Peterson
So the first person to die from this disease was on a boat with a bunch of other people who also went to a dump to view the white-throated Caracara. They went to a dump that the locals ‘avoid like the plague,’ due to the fact that there are long tailed Pygmy Rice rats living there — rats that carry the Andes strain of the hantavirus, which is the only strain known (so far) that can be transmitted from person to person.
Leo died on April 11 and on April 24 the boat made a “planned stop on the Atlantic island of Santa Helena.” So a bunch of people, who were possibly infected at that point, got off the boat and interacted with the public. For sure Mirjam, Leo’s wife, was still alive and interacting with the people of Santa Helena (South Atlantic, west of Angola, Africa).
From Santa Helena Mirjam, who was definitely infected with Hantavirus, flew to Johannesburg, South Africa. How many people did Mirjam interact with who could now be infected and sick?
From Johannesburg Mirjam got onboard a KLM flight heading to the Netherlands, but the crew saw she was extremely ill and removed her from the plane. How many passengers on that plane were infected by this extremely ill woman?
In the Johannesburg airport Mirjam collapsed and was taken to the hospital. Who helped her at the airport? Who transported her to the hospital? Who came in contact with her while she was gravely ill? And who came in contact with her body when she died the next day in Johannesburg?
Yeah, I’m sure Tedros is doing his best to contain this disease, that through the body of one person has already been to multiple cities, multiple countries and at least two contenents.
It’s only infectious when symptomatic, and the transmission is highly unlikely at all.
Meaning all of those asymptomatic interactions you outlined were not occasions for human to human transmission.
Even the airline trips, no one was having sex with her or sharing her drinks or utensils.
Relax.
Very few bat corona viruses were transmissible to humans. That’s what all the Wuhan Gain of Function research was doing. It was isolating the strains that were human-to-human transmissible, making them more lethal and more contagious.
It would not surprise me if Fauci’s NIH wasn’t also doing the same kinds of experiments on the only known form of Hantavirus known to be transmitted person-to-person.
Rats would make an even better bio-weapon vector to spread diseases than bats. Rats thrive everywhere humans exist and are very skilled at living among densely populated human habitations.
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.
Soap and water is better if available…
In health care, we suffer thru annual continuing education on TB…the one thing always mentioned is that people who live in environments with a lot of other people, close confines…like prisons…are at high risk for TB….
Most admission assessments have questions for the patient, that pertain to that….and or the symptoms of TB…
So that said…those cruise ships are like small towns, some of them…
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.
🤓
I saw it with my dad…he ruined it for me….giving his spiel after the ship capsized and the batteries and electricity etc…it was a great movie….
Gross. My worst nightmare. Being trapped on a boat with filth. 🤢
I have a worse nightmare of being stuck in a hospital 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???
Dude wanted to see a white-throated Caracara, a bird known to be spotted often at dumps.
Apparently many people from the ship went to the dump to do the same thing.
Funny thing about that bird, its nickname is “Darwin’s Caracara,” since ol’ Chucky brought one home with him.
And now Leo may be one of the winners of the 2026 Darwin Awards.
The White-throated Caracara also known as Darwin’s caracara, is a species of bird of prey in the family Falconidae, the falcons and caracaras. It is found in Argentina and Chile.
Looks like there’s only 1 life boat on that ship… hmmm .
It’ll be interesting to see how this virus works in people whose immune systems are still pumping out spike protein and not doing anything else…
Yawn! Off to The Playa!
I need to take my wife to an Argentinian rat infested landfill so we can observe the white throated Caracara birdy
Oh yeah, that’s tops on my bucket list too.
Another gain of function, Lyme disease, Covid and others we have not figured out yet.?
Funny how the ‘vaccine’ patent for this was just released last year.
I am sorry if I am informed enough to know why 2020 happened and how it just might happened again.
Trump is close to ruining the globalist establishment a$$holes and they know it. Brits and ALL of their paid lackeys.
Do you think we could bioengineer a “vaccine” specific to the Black Nobility of Italy, and the Hapsburgs, and the Rothschilds and the line of the House of Hanover (Saxe Gothe)?
One with seventeen boosters, injected monthly, to address the virus?
I know, I know, do not repay evil with evil.
But damn, it’s tempting, isn’t it?
Forgive me, for I have sinned . . .
Tenerife is in the Canary Islands – Spain not Portugal.
Hospitals are the same.
how do they plan to decontaminate the planes after ?
simplest solution turn cruise ship into hospital ship!
In Israeli Hebrew slang, hanta )חַנְטָה( means nonsense, a scam, a lie, or something that is fake. It is a colloquial term used to describe something dishonest or untrue, similar to saying “rubbish” or “garbage” in English.
Nice thing to know.
Thank you, Muehl.
Two things to note here:
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/hantavirus-stop-spread-back
First, the 2018 “outbreak” at a party in Argentina – the first documented known (allegedly) human to human transmission.
Looks like a test drop.
Second, Maria Van Kerkhove was the author of the WHO Report that inspired the worldwide lockdowns, and now she is front and center and in the spotlight six years later.
I would bet the WH is on full alert for a bioweapon attack.
That’s why they opted for the quarantine.
First, to make sure the passengers haven’t been infected with something,
known or unknown.
(What do you want to bet the WHO monsters have their hands on some filched smallpox vials?)
Second, to set the example: you quarantine the (potentially) sick, you do not lockdown the healthy. You do not spread fear, and you do not allow election fraud, and you do not ruin your economy.
You might, just, however,
invite Tedros and Kerkhove for a friendly chat at that quarantine center.
Then lock them down for an accidental potential exposure for, say, six months.
Just a suggestion.
Her spouse:
https://ghss.georgetown.edu/people/vankerkhove/
Oh, look, it’s Georgetown University.
Again.
Environmental causes and investments => how to make a fortune by making a killing.
And a work history with baby formula killer Nestle.
https://rocketreach.co/neil-van-kerkhove-email_34311492
That’s so on brand.
Best capture the links. Cornell just wiped its article on the famous couple who met “on the Hill.”
Working for whom, I wonder?
Unless that’s a Cornell term? DC centric me probably misinterpreted the term.
Remember those foreign students and or researcher, from China, that were caught with vials of who knows what? That was about six months ago…
Where can I get my HaVid26 vaxine??? Do I need to stay home under my bed until it is invented??…or is there already a generic mRNA version prepared?
Actually, there is a vaccine….created in 1950…is used for lab workers who might get exposed. AS I try to look it up, the info is no longer available in AI search, but it was yesterday.
I got similar information about a day ago. Developed in Korea, but not widely tested?
“Human-to-human transmission of the Andes virus (ANDV) was first claimed to have occurred
as part of the 1996 outbreak in southern Argentina,
and since then a number of studies have reported more cases and suggested
the involvement of this form of transmission in both Argentina and Chile.
Importantly, however, there have been no reports of human-to-human transmission from Europe, Asia,
and most countries in the Americas where the disease exists,
and other studies in Argentina and Chile did not find evidence of it.
The balance of the evidence does not support the claim that human-to-human transmission
of hantavirus infection occurs.
Well-designed cohort and case-control studies that control for co-exposure
to rodents are needed to inform public health recommendations.”
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9574657/
(bottom line, nobody really knows if human to human transmission is possible.
far more likely, as the review states, is these cases resulted from co-exposure to rodents.
granted, an engineered virus might behave differently.
but we already got the UFO movie coming to scare everybody silly, so doubling down seems unlikely.😂🤣)