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Brote de hantavirus en un crucero: tres pasajeros con síntomas serán evacuados en Países Bajos

El gobierno de Países Bajos confirmó este martes que recibirá a tres pasajeros del crucero MV Hondius que presentan síntomas compatibles con hantavirus, mientras la embarcación, afectada por un brote que ya dejó tres muertos, evalúa retomar su ruta hacia las Islas Canarias una vez completada la evacuación médica.
Según informó en un comunicado la naviera neerlandesa Oceanwide Expeditions, dos de los pacientes requieren atención urgente y serán trasladados junto a una tercera persona considerada contacto estrecho de uno de los fallecidos.
La operación se realizará mediante dos aviones especializados que se dirigen hacia Cabo Verde, donde el barco permanece fondeado en alerta sanitaria.
“Desde allí, los pacientes serán evacuados médicamente a los Países Bajos. Por el momento, no contamos con un cronograma exacto”, precisó la compañía. También confirmó que entre los evacuados hay al menos un ciudadano neerlandés, quien será atendido en su país de origen.
Una vez completado el operativo, el plan de la naviera es reanudar la travesía y dirigirse al archipiélago español de Canarias —con escalas posibles en Gran Canaria o Tenerife— en un viaje estimado de tres días, aunque esa decisión continúa sujeta a negociaciones con autoridades sanitarias internacionales y locales.
En ese contexto, el Ministerio de Sanidad de España confirmó el martes por la tarde que recibirá al MV Hondius en las Islas Canarias “en cumplimiento del derecho internacional y el espíritu humanitario”.
Según detalló en un comunicado, una vez que el buque llegue al archipiélago, equipos médicos examinarán y tratarán a todos los pasajeros y a la tripulación, y coordinarán su posterior traslado a sus países de origen.
“La Organización Mundial de la Salud ha explicado que Cabo Verde no puede realizar esta operación”, señaló el ministerio, que subrayó que las islas son “el lugar más próximo con las capacidades necesarias”. “España tiene una obligación moral y legal de auxiliar a estas personas, entre las que se encuentran además varios ciudadanos españoles”, agregó.
Además, el Gobierno español aceptó la solicitud de Países Bajos para asistir al médico del buque, quien se encuentra en estado grave y será trasladado a Canarias en un avión hospitalizado.
Leé también: El relato de un influencer que viaja en el crucero donde se detectó el brote de hantavirus: “Queremos volver” El crucero MV Hondius permanece frente a Cabo Verde. (Foto: AFP).
El MV Hondius, que había partido desde Ushuaia con destino a Cabo Verde, transporta a 147 personas entre pasajeros y tripulación, de 23 nacionalidades. La embarcación permanece bajo monitoreo tras la detección de casos vinculados al hantavirus que, según la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), afectaron al menos a siete personas, incluyendo dos confirmaciones por laboratorio.
En paralelo, un equipo de epidemiólogos del organismo internacional tenía previsto evaluar el estado sanitario a bordo para definir los próximos pasos, incluyendo eventuales repatriaciones y la viabilidad de continuar la navegación.
Cómo se desató el brote y quiénes son las víctimas
El primer caso fue el de un pasajero de 70 años, que desarrolló síntomas en pleno viaje y murió en el barco el 11 de abril. Su cuerpo fue trasladado a Santa Elena, territorio británico en el Atlántico Sur.
Su esposa, de 69 años, también enfermó durante la travesía: fue evacuada a Sudáfrica, donde murió en un hospital de Johannesburgo. Según fuentes vinculadas al caso, ambos serían oriundos de Países Bajos.
Un ciudadano alemán murió el 2 de mayo y se convirtió en la tercera víctima fatal del brote. Además, un británico de 69 años fue evacuado a Johannesburgo y permanece en cuidados intensivos.
Qué es el hantavirus y cuáles son los síntomas
El hantavirus es una enfermedad grave que se transmite principalmente a través de roedores, en especial por contacto con su orina, heces o saliva.

Los transmisores del hantavirus son los roedores silvestres de la familia Muridae. (Foto: gentileza Conicet)
En la Argentina, el principal transmisor es el ratón colilargo. En el país circulan distintas variantes del virus, y algunas, como el virus Andes, pueden presentar transmisión interpersonal, aunque el mecanismo más común sigue siendo ambiental.
Los síntomas iniciales del hantavirus suelen confundirse con una gripe: fiebre mayor a 38 grados, dolores musculares, cefalea, náuseas, vómitos y malestar general.
En una segunda etapa, la enfermedad puede evolucionar rápidamente hacia un síndrome cardiopulmonar, con dificultad respiratoria y compromiso hemodinámico.
En la Argentina rige una alerta sanitaria desde hace varias semanas por el aumento de casos y fallecimientos por hantavirus. Las autoridades insisten en la importancia de extremar las medidas de prevención, especialmente en regiones donde circula el virus.
(Con información de AFP y EFE)
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MAGA triumph: Trump ally Ken Paxton defeats John Cornyn in bitter Texas GOP primary war

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PLANO, TX – President Donald Trump and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are the winners in the Lone Star State’s bitter Republican Senate primary battle, which has spanned for more than a year and became the most expensive Senate primary in history.
Paxton, who was endorsed by Trump just one week ago, defeated longtime GOP Sen. John Cornyn in Tuesday’s runoff election for the Republican nomination, the Associated Press reports.
Paxton now faces off against state Rep. James Talarico — a rising star in the Democratic Party — in the general election in a race that is among a handful that may decide if the Republicans hold their slim 53-47 majority in the Senate. Talarico, who topped progressive star Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a vocal Trump critic, in the March primary is trying to become the first Democrat in nearly four decades to win a Senate election in Texas.
Trump targeted Cornyn as «VERY disloyal» as he backed Paxton, a major Trump ally and MAGA firebrand, in the final days of the runoff campaign. The ballot-box showdown in right-leaning Texas served as the latest test of Trump’s immense grip over the Republican Party and the strength of his endorsements in GOP nomination races.
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The runoff election was held three weeks after Trump’s purging of five state senators in Indiana’s primary who had opposed his push for congressional redistricting, a week and a half after the president helped to oust Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana — who, five and a half years ago, voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial — and one week after Trump was instrumental in sending vocal GOP critic Rep. Tom Massie of Kentucky down to defeat in his re-election bid.
After sitting on the sidelines for months, Trump last Tuesday backed Paxton.
«Ken is a true MAGA Warrior who has ALWAYS delivered for Texas, and will continue to do so in the United States Senate,» Trump wrote in a social media post last Tuesday.
The two heated rivals topped a crowded field of contenders in the early March primary, with Cornyn edging Paxton. But since neither cleared the 50% threshold, the nomination race headed into overtime.
Trump, in backing Paxton, said that «John Cornyn is a good man, and I worked well with him, but he was not supportive of me when times were tough.»
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Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, center, campaigns at a meet and greet in Corpus Christi, Texas, on May 22, 2026, days ahead of the runoff election for the GOP Senate nomination. (Luke Travisan/Fox News)
Pointing to the senator’s past criticism of him, Trump added, «John was very late in backing me in what turned out to be a Historic Run for the Republican Nomination, and then, the Presidency.»
Cornyn, in a Fox News Digital interview on the eve of the runoff, emphasized his support for the president and his agenda.
«President Trump has called me a friend and a good man, and we’ve worked with him closely for both terms of office,» the senator said.
Paxton, who grabbed significant national attention the past dozen years by filing lawsuits against the Obama and Biden administrations, disagreed.
«John Cornyn fought Trump on the border. And you can go back over about a decade and see that he was not for the border wall,» Paxton charged in an interview on Fox News’ «The Big Weekend Show.»
CONTENTIOUS REPUBLICAN SENATE PRIMARY IN TEXAS HEADED INTO OVERTIME

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton landed President Donald Trump’s endorsement one week ahead of his runoff election against Republican Sen. John Cornyn for the GOP Senate nomination. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Paxton also argued that the senator «fought the president’s re-election. He fought him in 2024, said his time had passed, and he fought him in 2016. So this is not a pro-Trump guy. I don’t know if we could be more different on the Republican issues than John Cornyn and me. So there is a vast difference between the two of us.»
Cornyn pushed back.
«I don’t know how much more with him I could be than 99.3% of the time,» the senator told Fox News Digital.
«I want him to be successful. I want America to be successful, and I want Republicans to be successful. But you know, in the end, as I said, Texans are the only ones going to be able to make a choice, and I think Texans can be pretty independent,» Cornyn added.
Paxton has faced a slew of scandals and legal problems that have battered him over the past decade. In 2023, the Texas House of Representatives voted to impeach Paxton, but he was eventually acquitted of all charges by the state Senate.
And Paxton is dealing with a very messy divorce, with his wife citing «biblical grounds» based on «recent discoveries» in filing last year to end their marriage.
Cornyn, who was supported by Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, repeatedly argued that if Paxton was the GOP’s nominee, the party will be forced to spend millions of dollars to keep the seat from flipping and that Republicans down-ballot will suffer.
«He’s gotten more and more emboldened as he’s gotten away with all the scandal and mischief that now is very well known, but were he to be the nominee and be exposed to general election voters, especially independents, I think it’s going to be a very rocky time,» the senator predicted.
TRUMP OWNS THE GOP – BUT WILL REPUBLICANS PAY A PRICE IN THE MIDTERMS?

Democratic Senate candidate Rep. James Talarico speaks to supporters on primary night in Austin, Texas, on March 3, 2026. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
And pointing to Talarico, who hauled in an eye-popping $27 million in fundraising during the first three months of this year, Cornyn said, «There will be an incredible tsunami of Democratic funds coming in against Paxton, were he the nominee. Conversely… if I am the nominee… we’ll be able to shoulder the burden pretty much on our own. I won my last general election by 10 points. I think I can do similarly against somebody who’s as far left and radical as James Talarico.»
While Paxton shifted his ads to target Talarico in the wake of the Trump endorsement, Cornyn and allied groups continued to blast Paxton.
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«I don’t think anybody could honestly argue that we haven’t fought hard to make the case here,» Cornyn said of his campaign.
And he emphatically said he had «worked too long and too hard to help build the Republican Party in Texas, and in the United States Senate, and to keep Texas the envy of the nation when it comes to opportunities and pursuing the American dream, to let that go, to squander it, and let it go without a fight.»
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‘Designated target’ Mojtaba Khamenei to sign Trump deal in ‘unprecedented’ courier setup

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Iran’s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, would have to approve any final deal with the U.S. through secret courier networks while remaining in hiding as a «designated target,» counterterrorism experts said Tuesday.
The unprecedented arrangement, they claimed, means Washington is negotiating a high-stakes accord with an entirely invisible counterparty, with a potential memorandum signed by a regime leader and a «designated target» who can never publicly show his face.
«Khamenei is a designated target, and every confirmed sighting is a coordinate,» Dr. Omar Mohammed told Fox News Digital.
«The courier system used for messaging is not transitional. It is the operating system of his rule.
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In this picture obtained from Iran’s ISNA news agency, Mojtaba Khamenei (C), son of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, walks along a street in Tehran on May 31, 2019. (Hamid FOROUTAN / ISNA / AFP via Getty Images)
«Any deal the United States signs will have to be designed for a permanently invisible counterparty whose enforcement depends on his continued survival. That is not arms control as it has been conventionally understood. It is a memorandum signed under American military pressure, with a regime whose leader cannot show his face.»
Mohammed’s remarks came after Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained to reporters in India why the deal was suffering delays.
«It’s just the response,» Rubio said. «I mean, when you get down on some of these things, you’ve got to hear back, and it takes the Iranians — takes them a little while longer to get back,» he explained.
«That is Secretary Rubio confirming the courier latency on the record,» said Dr. Omar Mohammed, director of the Antisemitism Research Initiative Program on Extremism at George Washington University. «Rubio is describing a structural feature of negotiating with a supreme leader no one can locate.
IRAN’S KHAMENEI STAYS AWAY FROM TALKS AS JD VANCE SAYS DYNAMIC MAKES DIPLOMACY ‘MUCH MORE COMPLICATED’

President Donald Trump monitors U.S. military operations in Iran following an Israeli strike in Tehran on Feb. 28, 2026. (White House)
«Mojtaba is in hiding, messages are moving by courier, and responses are arriving days late.
«Rubio just confirmed the symptom, and the administration is being honest about the problem. The question is whether the framework can be designed to survive it,» Mohammed claimed.
Khamenei has spent nearly three months in hiding as tensions with the U.S. escalate.
He went underground as soon as a strike on Feb. 28 killed his father, amid reports that he was gravely injured.
He was struck in Operation Epic Fury — «wounded and likely disfigured,» according to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. His wife and son were killed in the same strike.
«Officials at the highest levels of the Iranian government do not know where he is,» Mohammed said, meaning every piece of information he receives is «dated, and his responses come with significant latency.»
The remarks come as Iran and the United States continue talks aimed at reaching a deal to end the war that began Feb. 28.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio faced tough questions Sunday at a New Delhi, India, news conference about the Trump administration’s pressing India on trade, tariffs, visa and immigration reform. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AFP)
«If there’s going to be a deal, we’re going to have to work through that. But this is, you know, it’s either going to be a good deal or there isn’t going to be one,» Rubio said Tuesday.
A senior administration official said the U.S. is prepared to ease sanctions if Iran makes major concessions on uranium enrichment. Frozen Iranian assets have also emerged as a key hurdle.
Iran said Monday that no agreement with the United States was imminent, despite progress toward a framework in talks.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the focus of talks remained ending the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, and that a possible memorandum of understanding did not include specific details on managing the Strait of Hormuz.
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«The real question for Washington is not how fast the framework can be signed,» Mohammed added.
«It is also what enforcement looks like when the counterparty’s signature comes through a courier.»
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