Trapped cruise ship passenger shares update on cleanliness of ship amid deadly hantavirus outbreak

A trapped cruise vessel rider is sharing an updated connection amid a hantavirus outbreak.

Jake Rosmarin, a question blogger from Boston, is aboard the Dutch vas M/V Hondius, which was connected a weeks-long polar cruise from Argentina to Antarctica and respective isolated islands successful the South Atlantic erstwhile the deadly outbreak began.

In a tearful video shared to Instagram connected Monday, Rosmarin said, "All we privation close present is to consciousness safe, to person clarity and to get home."

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On Tuesday, Rosmarin shared an updated connection with Fox News Digital.

"Other than the 2 sick passengers that person already been referenced successful the media, everyone other onboard is doing good and remains successful bully spirits," Rosmarin said. "We are hopeful that this concern volition beryllium resolved soon."

Travel blogger Jake Rosmarin is pictured onboard the M/V Hondius sailing done the South Atlantic successful aboriginal April. (Jake Rosmarin)

Rosmarin praised the unit of Oceanwide Expeditions’ "best efforts" to support passengers "safe, informed and arsenic comfy arsenic imaginable during this time."

The rider besides pointed retired that the M/V Hondius is not a accepted cruise ship, but an expedition vessel.

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"These ships run with strict protocols and a beardown accent connected cleanliness, particularly fixed the distant and environmentally delicate regions they visit, which necessitate precocious levels of biosecurity," helium said. "The vas is maintained to a precise precocious standard, and suggestions that it is unclean are not accurate."

Rosmarin besides elaborate the information measures successful spot connected the ship, including societal distancing and masking.

The MV Hondius cruise vessel is anchored astatine a larboard successful Praia, Cape Verde, connected May 4, 2026. (Arilson Almeida/AP)

"Passengers besides person the enactment to person meals delivered straight to their cabins," helium said. "Access to the outer decks is permitted for caller air, portion gathering successful indoor communal areas specified arsenic the lounge is presently restricted."

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"We proceed to beryllium good cared for, and further aesculapian provisions and supplies person been brought onboard."

Rosmarin said helium remains hopeful that the concern volition beryllium resolved soon. 

"The vas is maintained to a precise precocious standard, and suggestions that it is unclean are not accurate."

The vessel primitively departed from Argentina connected April 1. The archetypal unwellness and decease occurred connected April 11, and the vessel reached Saint Helena connected April 22 with the archetypal unfortunate onboard.

Hantaviruses see a radical of viruses chiefly carried by rodents that tin origin terrible respiratory oregon renal diseases successful humans.

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There person present been a full of 7 cases reported (two confirmed and 5 suspected), and 3 deaths among passengers, the World Health Organization confirmed. Two unit members are presently sick and 1 rider was evacuated to intensive attraction successful South Africa, according to reports.

A 3D illustration shows the operation of hantavirus, an RNA microorganism transmitted to humans done rodent excreta that tin origin terrible illnesses including hemorrhagic fever, renal illness and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. (iStock)

WHO said the bureau is inactive investigating the outbreak arsenic the vessel remains disconnected the seashore of Cape Verde, noting that human-to-human transmission is uncommon and that determination is not a precocious hazard to the wider ‌public.

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"We bash judge that determination whitethorn beryllium immoderate human-to-human transmission that's happening among the truly adjacent ​contacts, the hubby and wife, radical who person shared cabins," Maria Van Kerkhove, the manager of epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention astatine the WHO, told reporters successful Geneva.

Fox News Digital reached retired to the cruise vessel institution requesting comment.