Cruise ship with hantavirus outbreak heads to Canary Islands after 3 people evacuated
Two patients with hantavirus and one suspected of infection were evacuated Wednesday from a cruise ship at the center of a deadly outbreak, the U.N. health agency said. The ship then departed Cape Verde with nearly 150 people on board — isolated in their cabins — and headed to Spain's Canary Islands
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