MV Hondius anchored off Granadilla early Sunday after a night of tension between the Canary Islands government and Madrid over evacuation flights. View on euronews

Three passengers have been evacuated from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak, as related cases are confirmed in Switzerland and South Africa.

A total of 10 cases of hantavirus have been reported to the World Health Organization, the group shared in an update Friday.

For some experts, the outbreak is raising broader concerns about how equipped the U.S. is to respond to future infectious disease threats.

And in recent days, another one has made itself known in the wake of a rare hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship: the fear, despite official reassurances, that it might be happening again. But the flourishing of fear,

An American woman who was on a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship is reportedly isolating on a remote island in the South Pacific.

A French woman infected in the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship is critically ill and being treated with an artificial lung, a doctor at

They boarded a cruise ship in Argentina last month for a once-in-a-lifetime expedition across the Atlantic Ocean to see unique wildlife and remote islands. Six weeks later, most of the American passengers who were aboard the MV Hondius are now in a small and spartan room with a bed and an exercise bike at the National Quarantine Unit in Omaha,