[OC] Tracking the MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak across 14 countries since the first WHO notification on 2 May 2026
by Professional_Art2346
[OC] Tracking the MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak across 14 countries since the first WHO notification on 2 May 2026
by Professional_Art2346
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Source: built this myself to track the ongoing Andes virus cluster aboard the MV Hondius expedition cruise ship. 9 cases, 3 deaths, contact tracing across 14 countries.
Data is aggregated from primary sources: WHO Disease Outbreak News DON599, ECDC weekly bulletins, CDC HAN advisories, UKHSA situation updates, national ministry briefings (Argentina, France, Spain, Netherlands), plus [virological.org](http://virological.org) for the sequencing data.
Built with vanilla JS, Leaflet for the map, Cloudflare Pages for hosting. The country choropleth uses Natural Earth boundaries. Updates daily.
Full tracker including event timeline and per-country detail at [hantaosint.com](http://hantaosint.com) if anyone wants the underlying data.
Happy to answer questions about the sourcing or the surveillance gap between WHO notification and mainstream news coverage. That gap is roughly 5 to 10 days based on the last six outbreaks I’ve documented.
Why on earth they let them off the ship I’ll never know, It’s already out of control. Back to spring 2020 but now with a 40% death rate instead of 0.7%. People here are typically are blaming Trump but every country is repatriating the infected and letting it spread. Given the WHO okay’d evacuating the ship, maybe funding them *was* a mistake.
In a year you’ll all be wishing we left the ship adrift and sent it food/water for at least 100 days.
I’m sure this is really impressive and a nice tool. But it needs to be said that Hantavirus is *not* Covid26. It spreads inn such a different way there’s really no way for it to become a pandemic, and there’s no need for any regular person to track it.
Fuck this, I am 100% not alright seeing this kind of thing again. I’m sure a lot of work went into this, but this seems like unnecessary fear mongering.
For thus of us that are not afraid, but love data, share the link pls :))