Hantavirus cruise ship docks in Netherlands

The cruise ship Hondius has returned to the Netherlands after a hantavirus outbreak that killed three passengers.

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May 18, 2026 - 2:38 PM

The Dutch Hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius docks after arriving at the port of Rotterdam on May 18, 2026. Photo by Peter Lipton/TNS

AMSTERDAM — The Hondius cruise ship that was hit by an outbreak of hantavirus in early April has returned to the Netherlands and docked in Rotterdam on Monday.

Aboard the Hondius, which is registered in the Dutch town of Vlissingen, was the body of a German woman who died at sea on May 3.

She is to be cremated near Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, after which her ashes will be handed over to her family, the Rotterdam health authorities said.

A total of three passengers that took part in an Atlantic cruise on the Hondius have died from hantavirus so…

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