The Dutch cruise company had not previously acknowledged the passengers had disembarked on the island known for Napoleon Bonaparte’s exile.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — About 40 passengers on a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak previously disembarked on the remote South Atlantic island of St. Helena after the first passenger died, Dutch officials said Thursday.
The dozens of passengers, including the wife of a Dutch man who died, left the cruise ship during a stop at the British territory, the Dutch foreign ministry said.
The Dutch cruise company that operates the ship
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