90-Second Read: Cruise Ship Hit by Hantavirus Outbreak Sails for European Mainland

With a series of four honks, the cruise ship at the center of a deadly Hantavirus outbreak departed the Canary Islands on Monday evening. The interval allowed the cruise's 150 passengers to be tested and to disembark. On Monday evening, Spain's health minister, Mónica García, said a Spanish passenger who tested positive for Hantavirus is being isolated at a hospital in Madrid.

At least seven other people who were on the ship have fallen ill or tested positive, health officials said. Hantavirus is a rare family of pathogens carried by rodents. National health officials will monitor people who were aboard for signs of disease over the next few weeks.

The last plane carrying passengers to their home countries was scheduled to depart on Monday, said Mónica García, Spain's health minister. Oceanwide Expeditions, the cruise operator, said on Sunday that once all guests and some of the crew had left, the ship was to "take on necessary supplies" before heading to Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The last evacuees disembarked in the Canary Islands, and a smaller crew is now en route to Rotterdam, where the ship will be disinfected, officials said.