WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, along with Spanish Health Minister Monica Garcia and Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, arrived on the island of Tenerife on Saturday to help calm locals ahead of the vessel’s arrival, and to help coordinate the disembarkation efforts. Tedros issued a direct statement to assure the people of Tenerife that, despite lingering fears left over from the 2020 pandemic, “this is not another Covid”, and the public health risk of contracting hantavirus is still very low. Hantavirus can cause severe illness and is generally contracted by inhaling contaminated rodent residue, making transmission between people difficult. Yet, the specific Andes virus detected in this outbreak may be able to spread from person to person in rare cases. The Dutch-flagged cruise ship that has spent last week exiled at sea, stricken down by an outbreak of the deadly hantavirus outbreak, has now officially docked in Spain, more than a week after authorities were first alerted to the medical emergency on board, The MV Hondius, which has more than 140 passengers and crew on board, …