Cruise ship dealing with hantavirus outbreak arrives at port in Spain's Canary Islands

April 1: The MV Hondius sets sail from southern Argentina with 175 people on board. April 6: A 70-year-old Dutch man falls ill with fever, headache and diarrhea, health officials say. April 11: The man dies on board after developing respiratory distress. At the time, the ship was between the British island territories of South Georgia and St. Helena in the middle of the South Atlantic, according to data from the ship-tracking website MarineTraffic. April 24: The ship stops at St. Helena, where the body of the man is removed and his 69-year-old wife disembarks. The ship's operator, Oceanwide Expeditions, said 30 passengers in total — including the man who died — left the ship at that time, including two Canadians. April 26: The wife of the first victim dies in hospital after collapsing at an airport in South Africa the day before. Another passenger, a British man, becomes sick on the ship after it leaves St. Helena. The next day, after the ship docks at Ascension Island, he is evacuated to South Africa, where he remains in intensive care. May 2: A third person, a German woman, dies on board the ship four days after falling ill with signs of pneumonia. The same day, health officials confirm hantavirus in the British man. May 3: The WHO announces it is investigating a suspected hantavirus outbreak on the ship. May 6: Three individuals requiring "urgent medical care" were transferred by medical aircraft from the ship to the Netherlands, the ship's operator said in an update. May 7: Five of the eight ‌suspected cases of hantavirus have been confirmed, WHO says. In a joint statement, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand and Health Minister Marjorie Michel confirm the two Canadians on the cruise ship are now back home, as is another who wasn't on the vessel but may have come into contact with a symptomatic individual. "All three are asymptomatic, have received guidance to self-isolate, and are being monitored by local authorities for the development of symptoms," the ministers said. May 8: Canada's chief public health officer, Dr. Joss Reimer, said a total of six Canadians who were exposed to the virus are asymptomatic but self-isolating at home. They include three who had been on the same flight as the Dutch woman who died from the virus. The WHO said a flight attendant on a plane briefly boarded by an infected cruise passenger had tested negative for hantavirus. Her possible infection had raised concerns about the potential transmissibility of the virus. May 10: WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, along with Spain's Health Minister Monica Garcia and Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, were due to arrive on Tenerife on Saturday to co-ordinate the disembarkation of passengers and some crew. Canadian officials were also set to arrive there ahead of the ship.