Two suspected hantavirus cases found in Spain, remote Tristan da Cunha

Health experts raced to contain a potential spread of hantavirus as two suspected cases emerged on Friday far from the luxury cruise liner where the outbreak started.The latest reports involved a man who fell ill after leaving the ship and a woman who became sick after sitting near an infected cruise passenger on a plane.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.The occurrences reported by health officials thousands of miles apart - one in Spain, the other on the remote South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha - are separate from the World Health Organization's tally of eight people who became ill aboard the Dutch-flagged ship MV Hondius.Three of those people have died. WHO officials said on Friday six of the eight suspected cases have been confirmed as hantavirus, a potentially fatal disease typically carried and spread by rodents. Cruise ship bound for Canary IslandsThe announcements of new cases far from the vessel fueled

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