French Minister of Health Stephanie Rist confirmed on 11/5 that a French citizen tested positive for Hantavirus after returning from the MV Hondius cruise ship.

Lorne Warburton had never heard of hantavirus until three years ago, when he was hospitalized and kept alive by machines.

The MV Hondius cruise ship, carrying the hantavirus pathogen, has docked at Granadilla port on Tenerife island, Spain, initiating a multinational medical evacuation operation.

Argentina is urgently investigating the origin of a deadly andes virus variant outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship, which has claimed the lives of three passengers and infected five others.

The Ministry of Health has issued an urgent warning about the risk of Hanta virus infection from rats, a pathogen causing severe acute respiratory inflammation with a high mortality rate.