Efforts to control hantavirus outbreak reach global scale while cases in Spain and France fuel uncertainty

With the disembarkation of the Antarctic cruise ship MV Hondius progressing and with reports that there were no people with symptoms on board, experts and health authorities were confident during the early hours of Monday that the health crisis created by the hantavirus outbreak was entering a final phase that could be long —quarantines last up to 42 days— but without cause for major concern.