Health authorities in France and the Netherlands have confirmed that all individuals who were in close contact with hantavirus cases linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship have tested negative. This includes passengers evacuated to the Netherlands.

France’s health minister said on Thursday that 26 people in France identified as close contacts of hantavirus cases linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship had tested negative for the illness. Dutch authorities said that all people who arrived in the Netherlands on evacuation flights from the ship this week have also tested negative. Twenty-six people are in hospital isolation in France, including 22 identified as close contacts of a Dutch woman on the MV Hondius that was at the centre of an...