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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"These ships run pinch strict protocols and a beardown accent connected cleanliness, particularly fixed nan distant and environmentally delicate regions they visit, which require precocious levels of biosecurity," he said. "The alloy is maintained to a very precocious standard, and suggestions that it is unclean are not accurate."

Rosmarin besides elaborate nan safety measures successful spot connected nan 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 nan action to person meals delivered straight to their cabins," he said. "Access to nan outer decks is permitted for caller air, while gathering successful indoor communal areas specified arsenic nan 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 he remains hopeful that nan business will beryllium resolved soon. 

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

The vessel primitively departed from Argentina connected April 1. The first unwellness and decease occurred connected April 11, and nan vessel reached Saint Helena connected April 22 pinch nan first unfortunate onboard.

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

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There person now been a full of seven cases reported (two confirmed and 5 suspected), and 3 deaths among passengers, nan 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 nan building 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 nan agency is still investigating nan outbreak arsenic nan vessel remains disconnected nan seashore of Cape Verde, noting that human-to-human transmission is uncommon and that location is not a precocious consequence to nan wider ‌public.

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"We do judge that location whitethorn beryllium immoderate human-to-human transmission that's happening among nan really adjacent ​contacts, nan hubby and wife, group who person shared cabins," Maria Van Kerkhove, nan head of pandemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention astatine nan WHO, told reporters successful Geneva.

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