Indian health authorities have strengthened surveillance and precautionary monitoring following a rare hantavirus outbreak linked to the Dutch expedition cruise ship MV Hondius, even as the two Indian crew members aboard the vessel were confirmed to be healthy and asymptomatic after being evacuated to the Netherlands.

Guwahati, May 8: A rare hantavirus outbreak aboard the luxury expedition cruise ship MV Hondius, travelling from Antarctica toward Spain’s Canary Islands, has triggered...