French woman was told by doctors hantavirus symptoms were just anxiety

Exclusive: Spanish health minister says MV Hondius passenger, now in a ‘critical state’, had been suffering flu-like symptoms A French woman who tested positive for hantavirus after she was evacuated from a cruise ship reported symptoms to doctors onboard but was told it was probably just anxiety, the Spanish health minister has said. Javier Padilla Bernáldez said the woman, who had been travelling on the ship at the centre of a deadly hantavirus outbreak, had been suffering flu-like symptoms...

By Robyn Vinter in Tenerife, Angelique Chrisafis in Paris and Sam Jones in Madrid

US says one passenger from cruise ship Hondius tests positive for Andes strain of Hantavirus

The French woman developed symptoms on the repatriation flight from the Canary Islands and worsened overnight.