Hantavirus ship video reveals moment captain reported first death to passengers

Those on board the cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak were “not well informed,” a passenger has told NBC News, with life continuing as usual even after the first death was announced

Those on board the cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak were “not well informed,” a passenger has told NBC News, with life continuing as usual even after the first death was announced.

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Ruhi Cenet was among the nearly 150 passengers aboard the Hondius. There have been five confirmed cases of the virus so far, three suspected, and three deaths, the World Health Organization said. There are no more symptomatic passengers on board, but the virus incubation period can be up to 6 weeks.

The Turkish travel vlogger said he boarded the ship in Ushuaia, Argentina, on April 1 to film a story about one of its stops, a remote archipelago in the South Atlantic.