More than 20 Britons potentially exposed to the disease on board the MV Hondius have volunteered for the UKHSA study Maeve Cullinan Global Health Security Reporter Maeve Cullinan is a reporter for The Telegraph’s Global Health Security desk. She covers issues including disease outbreaks, conflict, global development, humanitarian crises, and sexual violence and has reported from Africa and Asia. She was named on the Press 30 under 30 list in 2025. See more Published 21 May 2026 6:24pm BST British passengers repatriated from the cruise ship hit by an outbreak of hantavirus will be monitored for signs of infection as part of a long-term study. More than 20 Britons who were potentially exposed to the disease on board the MV Hondius have volunteered for the study, which is being run by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), the University of Liverpool, the Pandemic Sciences Institute at the University of Oxford, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow.…