The ship, carrying passengers from 28 countries, departed Argentina on April 1 and is heading toward Spain’s Canary Islands. Health authorities are tracing passengers who disembarked at St Helena, while WHO says the risk of a pandemic is low but confirmed rare human-to-human transmission of the virus

The WHO has confirmed an outbreak of hantavirus aboard the cruise ship Hondius in the Atlantic Ocean, with eight total cases including three deaths and five confirmed infections