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By SABRINA PENTY, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER and ELIANA SILVER, SENIOR FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER and IMOGEN GARFINKEL – SENIOR FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER
Published: 02:51 EDT, 6 May 2026 | Updated: 09:11 EDT, 6 May 2026
A critically ill British doctor has been evacuated from a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak.
Footage shows medics wearing hazmat suits boarding the luxury MV Hondius off the coast of Cape Verde to get three patients to specialist treatment in Europe.
Separate videos and images show the patients – also wearing personal protective equipment – lying on stretchers as they are wheeled into an ambulance.
A 56-year-old Brit is among the three people taken from the boat on Wednesday, the Dutch foreign ministry confirmed.
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