Over the past few days, more parts of the press have been reporting that the Hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius has spread beyond the boat, and that health authorities are ‘racing’ to track people who have been on board. ‘Why rat virus patients could become super-spreaders’ is the headline of one Telegraph article. ‘Superspreader fears’ is the caption of one image in the Sun. The Daily Express is even running a poll asking its readers ‘are you worried about the hantavirus cruise outbreak?’, a vote which they may have somewhat prejudiced by dubbing MV Hondius the ‘Horror Hantavirus cruise’ in another article published just yesterday. The Daily Mail has gone one further, alternatively calling MV Hondius the ‘Death Cruise’ and the ‘Doomed........

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