Deadly Cruise Ship Outbreak Shows Blind Spots in Virus Detection

The chef on the expedition vessel Hondius filmed it all. Tuna steaks sizzling on a flat-top grill. Lobster pulled from volcanic reefs. A crew drawn from nine countries gathered around a table in Ushuaia, Argentina, raising glasses before setting off into the South Atlantic.

“Next stop: the deep blue,” Khabir Moraes wrote in a Facebook post.

Ten days later, people on that same ship began dying.

A hantavirus outbreak tied to the Dutch-flagged vessel has left three passengers dead and five others ill, with cases now spanning continents, including a patient in intensive care in South Africa and another being treated in ...