- Mid-March: Dutch couple possibly contract virus on bird watching landfill excursion.
- April 1: MV Hondius departs southern Argentina.
- April 6: Dutch man falls ill.
- April 11: He dies.
- April 24: St. Helena. Man’s body is taken off ship and wife flies with it to South Africa. The Dutch woman is already sick before boarding flight to South Africa.
- April 26: The Dutch woman dies in SA at a hospital.
- April 27: A British man who is sick is flown from Ascension Island to South Africa.
- May 2: A German woman dies on the MV Hondius.
Meanwhile, we have people leaving the ship and flying all over the world:
Some Hantavirus Cruise Passengers Are Back in the U.S. MedPage Today
Two British people self isolating at home after leaving cruise ship in St Helena BBC. “The UKHSA also said British people currently on the ship would be flown home on a charter flight, probably from the Canary Islands, as long as they didn’t have symptoms.”
Patient with a hantavirus infection being treated in hospital Switzerland Federal Office of Public Health (press release)
Passenger with hantavirus was briefly on board a KLM aircraft in Johannesburg KLM (press release)
Spanish passenger on the ‘Hondius’: ‘There are 23 people who got off on Saint Helena and have been wandering around’ El Pais
Some Hantavirus Cruise Passengers Are Back in the U.S. MedPage Today
Two British people self isolating at home after leaving cruise ship in St Helena BBC. “The UKHSA also said British people currently on the ship would be flown home on a charter flight, probably from the Canary Islands, as long as they didn’t have symptoms.”
Patient with a hantavirus infection being treated in hospital Switzerland Federal Office of Public Health (press release)
Passenger with hantavirus was briefly on board a KLM aircraft in Johannesburg KLM (press release)
Spanish passenger on the ‘Hondius’: ‘There are 23 people who got off on Saint Helena and have been wandering around’ El Pais
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[ed. Time to pull that old "definition of insanity" cliche' out again. Even if this does eventually burn out, it appears we've learned very little in the last few years.]
