2026年5月8日 / 美国东部时间下午3:13 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
作者：马克·奥斯本
美国政府将派遣一架遣返专机，以稳妥流程从这艘正遭遇致命汉坦病毒疫情的游轮上安全撤离17名美国公民。
据美国国务院消息，这架专机由美国疾病控制与预防中心和卫生与公众服务部派出，将与西班牙官员合作，将美国公民送回美国。
据该大学和美国疾控中心一名官员透露，美国公民返回美国后，将被送往内布拉斯加大学医学中心，该中心设有专门的生物安全防护单元。
此次引发全球对罕见病毒传播担忧的“洪迪厄斯号”游轮目前正从佛得角前往加那利群岛——非洲西海岸外的西班牙群岛。当地时间周日早些时候，游轮预计将抵达加那利群岛中最大的特内里费岛沿岸。
在周日至周一期间，洪迪厄斯号将逐步疏散乘客，以避免病毒扩散。
由于加那利群岛官员拒绝让洪迪厄斯号在特内里费岛靠岸，这艘游轮将在近海抛锚停泊。
西班牙官员在周五的新闻发布会上表示，疏散将按国家分批进行。经确认无感染症状的乘客将以五人一组的方式，乘坐小艇离船上岸。随后他们将搭乘巴士直接前往机场跑道，其本国的专机已在那里准备就绪，西班牙官员说道。
“我再重申一遍：他们途经的所有区域都将被隔离，”民防秘书长弗吉尼亚·巴孔斯说道，“不会与平民有任何接触。”
2026年5月6日，在佛得角普拉亚港，多名疑似感染汉坦病毒的患者被撤离治疗，来自洪迪厄斯号游轮的医疗人员在现场。法新社 via 盖蒂图片社
世界卫生组织技术官员阿娜伊斯·勒冈周五表示，世卫组织正在为船上所有人提供健康检查，并“评估每个人可能接触确诊汉坦病毒病例的程度”。她表示，这将帮助世卫组织为乘客提供后续行动指导。
世卫组织和西班牙官员称，周五时船上147名乘客和船员均未出现任何相关病症。
巴孔斯表示，若有乘客出现症状，将启用医疗专机待命，但目前的工作假设是使用标准客机完成疏散。
据西班牙卫生官员透露，这艘悬挂荷兰国旗的洪迪厄斯号将在疏散完成后驶离加那利群岛，仅留少量船员返回荷兰母港。
此次游轮疫情已确认或疑似出现9例汉坦病毒感染病例，其中包括3例死亡：一对荷兰夫妇和另一名在船上去世的女性。这对荷兰夫妇此前已在阿根廷、乌拉圭和智利旅行数月，并在已知存在该病毒的地区观鸟——该病毒的安第斯毒株是唯一可在人际间传播的亚型。
包括美国在内的十多个国家已开始对在确诊游轮汉坦病毒疫情前下船的人员进行健康监测。
正如卫生官员一直以来所强调的，西班牙卫生大臣哈维尔·帕迪亚补充道，汉坦病毒——即便安第斯毒株——也不会像新冠病毒那样容易传播，对大多数人的感染风险很低。
“我们此前已经说明过，当前局势对普通民众来说风险极低，”帕迪亚说道。
安赫尔·卡纳莱斯对本文亦有贡献。
U.S. plans evacuation flight for Americans on cruise ship in hantavirus outbreak
May 8, 2026 / 3:13 PM EDT / CBS News
By Mark Osborne
The United States government is sending a repatriation plane for the painstaking process of safely evacuating 17 Americans from the cruise ship dealing with a deadly hantavirus outbreak.
The plane is being sent by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Health and Human Services, and will be used to transport Americans back to the U.S. in conjunction with Spanish officials, according to the U.S. State Department.
The Americans will be taken to the University of Nebraska Medical Center, which has a special biocontainment unit, upon their return to the U.S., the university and a CDC official said.
The MV Hondius, the cruise ship at the center of worldwide concern over spread of the rare virus, is currently traveling from Cape Verde to the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago off the west coast of Africa. It is expected to reach the coast of Tenerife, the largest of the seven Canary Islands, early Sunday local time.
Sometime between Sunday and Monday, the Hondius will undergo the process of slowly removing passengers in order to avoid spread of the virus.
Since officials in the Canary Islands refused to allow Hondius to dock in Tenerife, the boat will instead anchor offshore.
The disembarkation will happen country by country, Spanish officials said at a press conference Friday. Once passengers are confirmed asymptomatic, they will disembark the Hondius in groups of five in small boats to take them to shore. They will then get on buses and go straight to the airport runway, where their nation’s plane will already be ready for takeoff, the Spanish officials said.
“I repeat one more day: All the areas they are going to travel through are going to be isolated,” Virginia Balcones, the secretary general of civil protection, said. “There will be no contact with civilian personnel.”
Health personnel returning from the cruise ship MV Hondius are seen at the port of Praia, Cape Verde, on May 6, 2026, as several people with suspected cases of hantavirus infection were evacuated for treatment. AFP via Getty Images
The World Health Organization is working to provide health checks for everyone on board and “assess what level of exposure” each person may have had to confirmed hantavirus cases, Anais Legand, a WHO technical officer, said Friday. This will help the WHO give guidance to the passengers on next steps, she said.
None of the 147 people on board was experiencing any symptoms of the disease on Friday, the WHO and Spanish officials said.
Medicalized planes will be on standby in case anyone develops symptoms but the working assumption is standard aircraft will be used, Balcones said.
The Honidus, a Dutch-flagged ship, will then depart the Canary Islands and head home to the Netherlands with a skeleton crew, according to Spanish health officials.
There are nine confirmed or suspected cases of hantavirus stemming from the cruise, including three deaths — a Dutch couple and another woman who died on the ship. The Dutch couple had spent months traveling around Argentina, Uruguay and Chile and spent time bird-watching in locations known to carry the Andes strain of the virus, the only strain that is transmissible from human to human.
More than a dozen countries, including the U.S., are already monitoring people who disembarked from the ship prior to hantavirus being confirmed among passengers on the cruise.
As health officials have been doing all along, Spain’s Secretary of State for Health Javier Padilla echoed that hantavirus — even the Andes strain — does not spread easily like COVID-19 and the risk for most people is low.
“We have already been saying this, the existing situation is of very low risk for the general population,” Padilla said.
Angel Canales contributed to this report.
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