2026年5月5日 美国东部时间6:57 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
据世界卫生组织消息，西班牙已同意“接纳”这场罕见汉坦病毒疫情中心的邮轮，目前船上已有三人感染病毒后死亡。
这艘载有近150人的邮轮此前一直在大西洋佛得角海岸附近等待救援，因为这个非洲岛国以公共卫生为由拒绝其靠岸。
据世卫组织介绍，除三名死者外，另有四起疑似或确诊感染病例，其中一人为英国公民，已从船上撤离，目前在南非的重症监护室接受治疗。三名死者中两人在船上去世，第三人在下船后不久死亡。
世卫组织怀疑这艘遭遇疫情的邮轮上出现了人际传播，目前已要求乘客尽可能留在舱内。该机构同时已开始追踪与一名69岁乘客同乘航班的人员。
世卫组织称，这名荷兰女性的丈夫两周前在船上去世。她于4月24日带着“胃肠道症状”下船，在飞往约翰内斯堡的航班上病情“恶化”，两天后死亡。“已启动对该航班乘客的接触者追踪工作，”世卫组织补充道。
周二，世卫组织流行病和大流行防范与预防主任玛丽亚·范·克尔霍夫对记者表示，西班牙当局“已表示将接纳该邮轮，以开展全面调查、全面的流行病学调查以及对邮轮进行彻底消毒，当然还要……评估船上乘客的风险”。
该机构周二表示，当前计划是先将两名患病乘客撤离至荷兰，随后邮轮继续前往西班牙加那利群岛。
这张航拍照片展示了2026年5月4日停靠在佛得角首都普拉亚港外的“洪迪厄斯号”邮轮全景。法新社/盖蒂图片社
“洪迪厄斯号”是一艘荷兰邮轮，正在进行为期数周的极地巡航，航线从阿根廷前往南极洲及南大西洋的几座偏远岛屿。该船在抵达西非海岸外的佛得角后，已向当地卫生部门请求援助。但总部位于荷兰的运营方海洋远征探险公司表示，船上人员不允许下船。
佛得角卫生部周一表示，出于公共卫生顾虑，不会允许该船靠岸，仅允许其在靠近海岸的公海区域停留。
汉坦病毒是一种由啮齿动物传播的疾病，通过接触啮齿动物或其尿液、唾液、粪便进行传播。世卫组织称，尽管该病毒较为罕见，但可能会在人与人之间传播；人类感染该病毒后的死亡率最高可达50%。
目前尚不清楚此次疫情是如何爆发的，世卫组织表示正在展开调查，并协调撤离两名患病船员。另有一名病患——4月27日被撤离至南非的英国男性——病毒检测呈阳性，相关卫生官员称其情况危急。
海洋远征探险公司在一份声明中表示，其中一名遇难乘客——一名德国乘客——的遗体仍留在船上。官方消息称，一名70岁的荷兰男子于4月11日在船上去世，其69岁的妻子下船后在南非去世。南非卫生部长表示，她的血液后经检测呈病毒阳性。
据海洋远征探险公司统计，船上剩余的87名乘客中，17人为美国人，19人来自英国，13人来自西班牙，另有61名船员。
世卫组织驻佛得角官员安·林德斯特伦博士表示，佛得角已派出由两名医生、一名护士和一名实验室专家组成的医疗团队，分三批登船。
她在接受美联社采访时表示，他们正在规划医疗撤离方案，即通过救护车将乘客从船上转运至机场。
“对佛得角当局来说，这非常棘手，”林德斯特伦说，“他们必须应对一场公共卫生事件，当然也一直在考虑保护本国民众。”
世卫组织称，其正在与当地当局及海洋远征探险公司合作开展“全面的公共卫生风险评估”。
“详细调查正在进行中，包括进一步的实验室检测和流行病学调查，”世卫组织表示，“正在为乘客和船员提供医疗护理与支持。”
林德斯特伦告诉美联社，船上可能出现了新的病例，一名出现轻度发烧症状的人员正在接受医护人员的评估。
阿根廷省级当局表示，该邮轮于4月1日从阿根廷南部的乌斯怀亚出发。当地卫生官员证实，“洪迪厄斯号”起航时没有乘客出现汉坦病毒感染症状。
但由于感染症状可能在暴露后长达八周才会显现，“如果乘客是在该国境内或世界其他地方感染的病毒，那么他们可能正处于疾病潜伏期”，火地岛省流行病学主任胡安·法昆多·佩特里纳在乌斯怀亚接受美联社采访时表示。
他指出，该省历史上从未出现过汉坦病毒病例，但阿根廷其他省份曾暴发过感染疫情，据卫生部数据，去年全国共有28人因此死亡。
海洋远征探险公司在该邮轮上推广33晚或43晚的“大西洋奥德赛”航线。
该公司介绍，这艘邮轮拥有80间客舱，载客量为170人，通常配备约70名船员，其中包括一名医生。
Spain agrees to “welcome” hantavirus cruise ship as WHO traces contacts of deceased passenger
May 5, 2026 6:57 AM EDT / CBS/AP
Spain has agreed to “welcome” the cruise ship at the center of a rare hantavirus outbreak, with three people now dead after catching the illness onboard, according to the World Health Organization.
The ship, with nearly 150 people aboard, had been awaiting help off the coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean after the African island refused to let it dock over public health concerns.
Besides the three fatalities – two of whom died on board and a third who died shortly after disembarking – there are four other suspected or confirmed cases of the virus, one of whom is a British national who was evacuated from the boat and is now in intensive care in South Africa, according to the WHO.
The WHO says it suspects there has been some human-to-human transmission on the stricken ship, where passengers have been told to remain in their cabins as much as possible. It has also begun tracking down people who shared a flight with a 69-year-old passenger.
The Dutch woman, whose husband died onboard two weeks earlier, got off the boat with “gastrointestinal symptoms” on April 24 and died two days later, after her condition “deteriorated during a flight to Johannesburg,” the WHO said. “Contact tracing for passengers on the flight has been initiated,” it added.
On Tuesday, the WHO’s epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention director, Maria Van Kerkhove, told journalists Spanish authorities “have said that they will welcome the ship to do a full investigation, a full epidemiologic investigation, full disinfection of the ship and of course … assess the risk of the passengers that are actually on board.”
The agency said Tuesday that it’s current plan is to evacuate two sick passengers to the Netherlands, then for the ship to continue on to Spain’s Canary Islands.
This aerial picture shows a general view of the cruise ship MV Hondius stationary off the port of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, on May 4, 2026. AFP via Getty
The MV Hondius, a Dutch ship on a weekslong polar cruise from Argentina to Antarctica and several isolated islands in the South Atlantic, had requested help from local health authorities after making its way to Cape Verde, off the West Africa coast. But no one was allowed to disembark, Netherlands-based operator Oceanwide Expeditions said.
Cape Verde’s Health Ministry said Monday that it would not allow the ship to dock because of public health concerns, adding that it would stay in open waters close to shore.
Hantavirus is a rodent-borne illness spread by contact with rodents or their urine, saliva or droppings. WHO says that while it is rare, hantavirus may spread between people, and when humans catch the virus, it has a mortality rate of up to 50%.
It was unclear how the outbreak could have started, and WHO said it was investigating while working to coordinate the evacuation of two sick crew members. Another sick person – the British man evacuated to South Africa on April 27 – tested positive for the virus, authorities said. He is in critical condition, health officials said.
The body of one of the passengers who died – a German – remains on the ship, according to an Oceanwide Expeditions statement. A 70-year-old Dutch man died onboard April 11, and his 69-year-old wife died later in South Africa after leaving the ship, officials said. Her blood later tested positive for the virus, South Africa’s health minister said.
Among the 87 remaining passengers, 17 are Americans, 19 are from the U.K. and 13 from Spain, according to Oceanwide Expeditions. Sixty-one crew members also are onboard.
Cape Verde has sent a medical team of two doctors, a nurse and a laboratory specialist to the ship over three trips, said Dr. Ann Lindstrand, a WHO official in Cape Verde.
She told The Associated Press in an interview that they were planning for medical evacuations, in which passengers would be taken from the ship via ambulance to an airport.
“It’s been very tricky for Cape Verdean authorities,” Lindstrand said. “What they have to deal with is a public health event. And of course, they have been thinking about the protection of the population here.”
WHO said it was working with local authorities and Oceanwide on a “full public health risk assessment.”
“Detailed investigations are ongoing, including further laboratory testing, and epidemiological investigations,” WHO said. “Medical care and support are being provided to passengers and crew.”
Lindstrand told the AP there was a possible new case on the ship, in a person showing mild fever symptoms, who health workers were still assessing.
The ship left Ushuaia in southern Argentina on April 1, according to Argentine provincial authorities. Health officials there said they confirmed no passengers had hantavirus symptoms when the Hondius departed.
But because symptoms can appear up to eight weeks after exposure, “the passengers could have been incubating the disease if they acquired it within the country or elsewhere in the world,” Juan Facundo Petrina, director of epidemiology for Tierra del Fuego province, told AP in an interview from Ushuaia.
He noted that the province hasn’t historically seen hantavirus cases, but infections have broken out in other Argentine provinces, leading to 28 deaths nationwide last year, according to the health ministry.
Oceanwide Expeditions advertises 33-night or 43-night “Atlantic Odyssey” cruises on the vessel.
It has 80 cabins, a capacity of 170 passengers, and typically travels with about 70 crew members, including a doctor, the company said.