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Repatriated, monitoring, and crew-onboard numbers are tracker operational estimates derived from public WHO/ECDC updates and should be treated as approximate until country-level authorities publish final monitoring totals."},"timeline":[{"date":"2026-04-06","title":"Earliest reported illness onset","detail":"WHO later reported illness onset among cases occurred between 6 and 28 April 2026.","sources":["src-who-don-2026-05-04"]},{"date":"2026-05-02","title":"WHO notified of cluster","detail":"A cluster of severe respiratory illness aboard MV Hondius was reported to WHO.","sources":["src-who-don-2026-05-04"]},{"date":"2026-05-04","title":"WHO publishes first Disease Outbreak News","detail":"WHO reported seven cases, including two laboratory-confirmed hantavirus cases and three deaths.","sources":["src-who-don-2026-05-04"]},{"date":"2026-05-06","title":"CDC issues MV Hondius statement","detail":"CDC said the risk to the American public was extremely low and linked readers to hantavirus 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