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Three passengers have died, and three other people are being treated amid a "public health event" involving suspected hantavirus infections on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, health officials said.Of the three people who died, hantavirus was confirmed in one case, a passenger from the U.K. who became ill while the cruise ship was traveling from St. Helena to Ascension Island, South African Health Ministry Spokesperson Foster Mohale said.Hantavirus is suspected in the five other cases, the World Health Organization said in a statement Sunday. The other two who died were identified as a married couple, a 70-year-old man declared dead on arrival in St. Helena, and a 69-year-old woman who collapsed at Johannesburg’s international airport while attempting to fly to the pair’s home country of the Netherlands and died at a health facility, the spokesperson said. St. Helena is an island midway between South America and Africa. Of the three others who were sickened, one is in intensive care in South Africa, the WHO said. The WHO is helping the ship's operators launch a medical evacuation of the two other symptomatic people, it said, though it was not immediately clear whether that had happened.The Hondius, an ice-strengthened cruise
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