The ship was seeking assistance on Monday from Cape Verde, but no one has been allowed to disembark.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A Dutch cruise ship with nearly 150 people aboard, including 17 Americans, was waiting for help off the coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday after a suspected outbreak of the rare hantavirus killed three passengers and left at least three others seriously ill, the World Health Organization and the ship’s operator said.
The MV Hondius, which was on a weekslong polar cruise from Argentina to Antarctica and then several isolated
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