Sam Hancock

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Senior Journalist, BBC World

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How are countries responding to hantavirus?

May 12, 2026 |

By Sam Hancock

| Yahoo Canada

Sam Hancock Tue, May 12, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. UTC 7 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Britons were taken to a hospital in Merseyside on Sunday, having been flown from Tenerife on a chartered flight [Reuters] The last passengers and some crew members have now left a Dutch cruise ship at the centre of an outbreak of hantavirus, after disembarking at Granadilla port in south-east Tenerife.

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How are countries responding to hantavirus?

May 11, 2026 |

By Sam Hancock

| Yahoo News Australia

Sam Hancock Mon 11 May 2026 at 9:29 pm UTC 6 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Britons were taken to a hospital in Merseyside on Sunday, having been flown from Tenerife on a chartered flight [Reuters] The last passengers and some crew members have now left a Dutch cruise ship at the centre of an outbreak of hantavirus, after disembarking at Granadilla port in south-east Tenerife.

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How are countries responding to hantavirus? Original

May 11, 2026 |

By Sam Hancock

| BBC News

Image source, Reuters Image caption, Britons were taken to a hospital in Merseyside on Sunday, having been flown from Tenerife on a chartered flight BySam Hancock Published 24 minutes ago A Dutch cruise ship at the centre of an outbreak of hantavirus anchored on Sunday near Granadilla port, south-east Tenerife, Spain, allowing dozens of passengers from all over the world to begin making their way home.

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