2026年5月7日 / 美国东部时间上午11:31 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
马克·奥斯本 报道
针对当前停靠在非洲西海岸外的一艘邮轮上的汉坦病毒传播监测工作正在扩大，美国也已加入其中。此前，卫生官员证实该邮轮上的病毒为罕见的人际传播毒株。
世界卫生组织在周四的新闻发布会上表示，目前有12个国家正在对在确诊汉坦病毒病例之前提前下船的邮轮乘客进行监测。这些国家包括加拿大、丹麦、德国、荷兰、新西兰、圣基茨和尼维斯、新加坡、瑞典、瑞士、土耳其、英国和美国。
佐治亚州的两名居民和弗吉尼亚州的一名居民在从本次疫情中心的“洪迪乌斯号”邮轮回国后，正在接受该罕见且通常致命的疾病症状监测。佐治亚州和弗吉尼亚州的卫生部门表示，这三人目前健康状况良好，未出现任何病毒感染迹象。加利福尼亚州卫生部门称，该州也有数量不明的居民正在接受监测，均未出现相关疾病症状或感染迹象。
但据世界卫生组织消息，邮轮上已有三名乘客死亡，分别是荷兰的一对夫妇和一名德国女性。
2026年5月6日，荷兰“洪迪乌斯号”邮轮锚定在佛得角普拉亚港外。埃尔顿·蒙特罗/新华社 盖蒂图片社供图
邮轮公司表示，这对荷兰夫妇中的丈夫于4月11日在邮轮上死亡。不过，该船所属的海洋探险航运公司（Oceanwide Expeditions）周四证实，30名游客（包括6名美国人）于4月24日在南大西洋中部极其偏远的圣赫勒拿岛下船，之后自行返回各自的祖国。
“（对船上死亡的男子）未采集样本，且他的症状与其他呼吸道疾病相似，因此当时并未怀疑是汉坦病毒感染，”世界卫生组织总干事谭德塞博士在周四的新闻发布会上说道。
据海洋探险航运公司消息，这30名下船乘客中包括在邮轮上死亡的荷兰男子的妻子。世界卫生组织称，她的健康状况在4月25日从圣赫勒拿岛飞往约翰内斯堡的航班上恶化。该女子随后在约翰内斯堡短暂登上一架荷兰皇家航空公司的客机，但因健康状况被拒绝登机。据世界卫生组织消息，她在无法乘机回国后于次日在南非死亡。
一名出现症状的英国男子于4月27日被撤离至南非接受治疗。海洋探险航运公司表示，该男子的病例于5月4日被首次确诊为汉坦病毒感染。世界卫生组织称，该男子目前仍在住院治疗，但病情正在好转。
随后官方确认，这名荷兰女子的血液样本汉坦病毒检测呈阳性。荷兰皇家航空公司表示，公司于5月5日接到检测结果通知，正在通知该女子搭乘的航班上的所有乘客。
南非当局周三表示，在这名荷兰女子和住院的英国男子体内发现的汉坦病毒毒株为安第斯型汉坦病毒。这种主要在阿根廷和智利发现的毒株可以人际传播，而其他毒株则通过直接接触啮齿动物传播。
“在以往的安第斯型病毒疫情中，人际传播与密切且长期的接触有关，尤其是在家庭成员、亲密伴侣和提供医疗护理的人员之间，”谭德塞在新闻发布会上说道，“当前的情况似乎也是如此。”
对该病毒的担忧
卫生专家表示，该疾病大范围暴发的风险仍然较低。
“本次疫情引发大流行的风险很低，”哥伦比亚广播公司新闻医疗记者塞琳·冈德里博士说道，“汉坦病毒的传播方式与流感或新冠不同。但这正是检验全球卫生系统是否有效的典型事件。”
据英国卫生安全局消息，另外两名曾在“洪迪乌斯号”邮轮上的英国乘客已自行返回英国，目前也正在接受监测。该机构在声明中表示，两人目前均未报告出现症状，已被建议自我隔离，并补充道：“普通公众面临的风险仍然非常低。”
世界卫生组织称，另一名在圣赫勒拿岛下船的乘客在瑞士接受了疾病检测，结果安第斯型汉坦病毒检测呈阳性。
海洋探险航运公司表示，周三已有三名疑似汉坦病毒感染者被从邮轮上空运撤离，其中包括荷兰和德国乘客各一名，以及一名英国船员。世界卫生组织称，荷兰乘客和英国船员目前分别在荷兰接受治疗，情况均稳定。德国乘客无任何症状，已返回德国。
2026年5月6日，在佛得角普拉亚港，一名身着防护服的人员在“洪迪乌斯号”邮轮汉坦病毒暴发疫情后的疑似患者撤离行动中走在救护车旁。达尼尔松·塞凯拉/路透社
美国疾病控制与预防中心代理主任杰伊·巴塔查里亚博士在周三晚间的一份声明中表示，自获悉此次疫情以来，疾控中心一直在“协调国内及国际合作伙伴”开展工作。
该邮轮已于周三晚间驶离佛得角，正向北前往加那利群岛，预计航程为三至四天。不过加那利群岛的一些官员已经表示，不希望该邮轮按计划停靠在西班牙群岛最大的岛屿特内里费岛。
“我对‘洪迪乌斯号’邮轮驶入格拉纳迪亚港表示强烈反对，”特内里费岛海滨社区格拉纳迪亚德阿波纳的市长何塞·多明戈·雷加拉多周三在一段视频声明中用西班牙语说道，“我们呼吁采取行动，将他们转移至距离其祖国最近的机场，以便他们能够在本国卫生系统的照看下进行隔离和治疗，若有需要的话。”
雷加拉多补充道，让该邮轮停靠加那利群岛的决定“毫无常识”。
加那利群岛自治区主席费尔南多·克拉维霍周四宣布，允许该邮轮在群岛附近锚定，但不允许靠港。
阿根廷提供病毒治疗援助
在安第斯型病毒的起源地阿根廷，该国卫生部表示，将提供“现有技术能力、经验和资源，协助有需要的卫生系统”。
“昨日已确认该病毒毒株为安第斯型，该毒株此前仅在丘布特省、内格罗河省、 Neuquén省以及智利南部有传播记录，”卫生部说道，“考虑到该邮轮于4月1日从阿根廷启航，我国正积极与相关国际机构及所有参与国开展合作，以遏制疫情暴发并确保病例得到妥善处置。”
该国表示，阿根廷境内尚未报告相关关联病例。
阿根廷卫生部还称，自1996年强制报告制度实施以来，火地岛从未报告过汉坦病毒病例。该邮轮正是从该地区首府乌斯怀亚启航的。
这对死亡的荷兰夫妇于11月27日抵达阿根廷，随后用数月时间在该国及邻国智利和乌拉圭旅行，于3月27日返回阿根廷，并于4月1日登上“洪迪乌斯号”邮轮。
“登船之前，首批两名病例曾在阿根廷、智利和乌拉圭进行观鸟之旅，期间到访过已知携带安第斯型病毒的鼠类物种的栖息地，”谭德塞周四说道，“世卫组织正与阿根廷卫生当局合作，追踪这对夫妇的行踪。感谢阿根廷政府凭借其应对安第斯型病毒的经验和专业知识提供合作。”
Cruise passengers who departed ship early monitored for hantavirus in U.S., worldwide
May 7, 2026 / 11:31 AM EDT / CBS News
By Mark Osborne
The effort to monitor the spread of hantavirus from a cruise ship currently off the west coast of Africa is expanding, including in the United States, after health officials confirmed the virus on the ship is the rare strain that is transmissible from human to human.
Twelve countries are currently monitoring people who had disembarked the cruise ship before cases of hantavirus were confirmed, the World Health Organization said at a press conference Thursday. Those countries are Canada, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Saint Kitts And Nevis, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Two residents in Georgia and one in Virginia are among those being monitored for signs of the rare and often deadly disease after they returned home from the MV Hondius, the cruise ship at the center of the outbreak. All three are in good health and showing no signs of the virus, according to the departments of health in Georgia and Virginia. An unspecified number of California residents are also being monitored, the state’s health department said, with none showing signs of the illness or infection.
But three people who were on the cruise have died, including a couple from the Netherlands and another woman from Germany, according to the World Health Organization.
The Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius is anchored off Praia, Cabo Verde, May 6, 2026. Elton Monteiro/Xinhua via Getty Images
The husband in the Dutch couple died on board the cruise ship on April 11, the company said. However, Oceanwide Expeditions, the company that owns the ship, confirmed on Thursday that 30 guests — including six Americans — disembarked the Hondius on Saint Helena, an incredibly remote island in the middle of the South Atlantic, on April 24, and then returned on their own to their countries of origin.
“No samples were taken [from the man who died on board] and because his symptoms were similar to those of other respiratory diseases, hantavirus was not suspected,” Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the WHO, said at a press conference Thursday.
Among those 30 who disembarked was the wife of the Dutch man who died on the cruise, according to Oceanwide Expeditions. Her health worsened on a flight from Saint Helena to Johannesburg on April 25, the WHO said. She then briefly boarded a KLM passenger flight in Johannesburg, but she was not allowed to fly due to her medical condition, the airline said. She died in South Africa the next day after not being allowed to fly home, according to the WHO.
A British man who exhibited symptoms on the ship was evacuated on April 27 to receive medical care in South Africa. His case was the first confirmed to be hantavirus on May 4, Oceanwide Expeditions said. The man remains hospitalized, but his condition was improving, the WHO said.
Officials then confirmed the Dutch woman’s blood tested positive for hantavirus. KLM said it was notified of the test results on May 5 and was notifying everyone on the flight that the woman had boarded.
South African authorities said Wednesday the strain of hantavirus identified in the Dutch woman and the man in the hospital is the Andes strain. The Andes strain, which is found primarily in Argentina and Chile, can be transmitted from human to human, unlike other strains of the virus, which are caused by direct contact with rodents.
“In previous outbreaks of Andes virus, transmission between people has been associated with close and prolonged contact, particularly among household members, intimate partners and people providing medical care,” Tedros said at the press conference. “That appears to be the case in the current situation.”
Concerns over the virus
Health experts say the risk for a widespread outbreak of the disease is still unlikely.
“The pandemic risk from this outbreak is low,” said CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Céline Gounder. “Hantavirus does not spread the way flu or COVID does. But this is exactly the kind of event that tests whether global health systems work.”
Two Brits who were aboard the Hondius have since independently returned to the U.K. and are also being monitored, according to the U.K. Health Security Agency. Neither is currently reporting symptoms, and they’ve been advised to self-isolate, the agency said in its statement, adding, “The risk to the general public remains very low.”
Another person who disembarked in Saint Helena was tested in Switzerland for the disease and tested positive for the Andes strain, the WHO said.
Three people with suspected hantavirus cases were airlifted from the ship Wednesday, including German and Dutch passengers and a British crew member, Oceanwide Expeditions said. The Dutch passenger and British crew member are being treated in the Netherlands and are both stable, the WHO said. The German passenger was asymptomatic and returned to Germany, the WHO said.
A person in protective clothing walks next to an ambulance during an evacuation of suspected hantavirus patients, following an outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius, in Praia, Cape Verde, May 6, 2026. Danilson Sequeira / REUTERS
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, acting director for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a statement Wednesday night that the CDC has been “coordinating with domestic and international partners” since it learned of the outbreak.
The ship departed Cape Verde late Wednesday and is traveling north to the Canary Islands. The trip is expected to take three or four days, though some officials in the Canary Islands have already said they don’t want the ship docking at the Spanish archipelago’s largest island, Tenerife, as planned.
“I want to express my deep rejection of the arrival of the ship Hondius at the port of Granadilla,” José Domingo Regalado, mayor of the Tenerife seaside community of Granadilla de Abona, said in Spanish in a video statement Wednesday. “What we ask is that action be taken, since they can be transferred to the nearest airport to their countries of origin so that they can quarantine and be treated by their health system if they require it.”
Regalado added the decision to bring the passengers to the Canary Islands showed “no common sense.”
Canarias President Fernando Clavijo announced on Thursday the ship would be allowed to anchor off the islands, but not dock there.
Argentina offers help with treating virus
in Argentina, where the Andes strain originated, the country’s health ministry said it was offering its “technical capacity, experience and resources available to assist health systems that require it.”
“Yesterday it was confirmed that the variant corresponds to the Andes strain, which only has a history of circulation in Chubut, Río Negro and Neuquén and in southern Chile,” the health ministry said. “Taking into account that the ship set sail from Argentina on April 1, our country actively collaborates with the international agencies involved and with all the countries involved to contain the outbreak and ensure proper management of cases.”
The country said no associated cases have been reported in Argentina.
Argentina’s health ministry also said no hantavirus cases have ever been reported in Tierro del Fuego since mandatory notification began in 1996. The cruise ship departed from that region’s capital, Ushuaia.
The Dutch couple who died arrived in Argentina on Nov. 27 and spent months traveling around the country and neighboring Chile and Uruguay before returning to Argentina on March 27 and boarding the MV Hondius on April 1.
“Prior to boarding the ship, the first two cases had traveled through Argentina, Chile and Uruguay on a bird-watching trip, which included visits to sites where the species of rat that is known to carry Andes virus was present,” Tedros said on Thursday. “WHO is working with health authorities in Argentina to understand the movements of the couple, and I thank the government of Argentina for its cooperation, given its experience and expertise with Andes virus.”
