About 40 passengers from a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak previously disembarked on the remote South Atlantic island of St. Helena after the first passenger died, Dutch officials said Thursday. The dozens of passengers, including the wife of a Dutch man who died, left the cruise ship during a stop at the British territory, the Dutch foreign ministry has said. The cruise company had previously said the Dutch woman disembarked the ship with her husband’s body. The woman then flew to South Africa on a commercial plane. She died in South Africa. However, the company had not acknowledged anyone else also got off the ship at St. Helena.





