From Global News.

Three passengers have died while three people are being treated amid a suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, health officials said.

The rodent-borne illness was confirmed in one case and is suspected in five others, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement Sunday.

The WHO said detailed investigations aboard the MV Hondius ship, travelling from Argentina to Cape Verde, are ongoing, including further laboratory testing and epidemiological investigations. The virus is also being sequenced.

Two people who died were identified as a Dutch couple, a man aged 70 and a woman aged 69.

Global’s Katherine Ward reports.

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