With the repatriation of five French nationals, now hospitalized in Paris, questions have arisen regarding the management and isolation of their contacts. The procedures for quarantine have been specified by decree.

France has confirmed that a passenger who was flown back to France Sunday from a cruise ship struck by a deadly hantavirus outbreak has tested positive and several other contact cases are being isolated.

A French national who was evacuated from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, where three passengers died of the rat-borne illness, has begun experiencing symptoms of the disease, officials said Sunday.

A deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard the Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius has triggered a global health response after passengers from the United States and France tested positive following evacuation from Spain's Canary Islands.

All of the passengers of the MV Hondius and some of its crew have been evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship, as authorities continue to test people and monitor symptoms of the rare virus that has triggered an international health response.

Authorities in the United States, France and Spain are tracking exposed passengers after the outbreak aboard the cruise ship left three people dead Passengers of the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius wait to board buses after disembarking in the port of Granadilla de Abona on the island of Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands | Photo: AFP Spain: American passengers evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship following the hantavirus outbreak are now in the United States,

Authorities around the world are scrambling to trace who may have been exposed to curb the spread of the deadly virus.

Confirmed cases of hantavirus, which broke out in a group on a cruise ship sailing across the Atlantic, are continuing to be added one after another. According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) on the 10th,

An American on the repatriation flight began showing symptoms of hantavirus and another "tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus," the Department of Health and Human Services says.

Here is a roundup of which countries have confirmed or probable cases of nationals infected by hantavirus after the outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius, according to the World Health Organization.

France's first case: A French woman tested positive after returning from Tenerife; she is isolating in Paris and her condition is deteriorating. U.S. reassures public: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the outbreak is under control and the public ...