2026-05-08 · This surge ran for 8 days and has since subsided.
MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak drew 149,811 Wikipedia views in a day
MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak drew 149,811 views on 2026-05-08, against a typical 33,991 a day. Normal traffic here is low enough that the multiple (4.4x) is indicative rather than precise — the view count is the solid figure here.
MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak
2026 outbreak on cruise ship
View as table
| Date | Views |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-08 | 149,811 |
| 2026-05-07 | 130,871 |
| 2026-05-06 | 33,991 |
| 2026-05-05 | 20 |
What this article is
In April 2026, an outbreak of hantavirus infection caused by the Andes virus was identified on the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius. There were ten confirmed cases and two suspected cases directly linked to the outbreak as of 22 May. There have been three deaths, two of which have been confirmed as caused by the Andes virus, the last on 2 May. By 11 May, all passengers had disembarked and been evacuated, many to their home countries for quarantine. On 2 July 2026, the World Health Organization officially declared the outbreak to be over, after the last close contact was released from quarantine.
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Where editors were working
Wikipedia editors made 148 edits to this article on 2026-05-08, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.
- 8 May
- Hantavirus
- 6 April – 5 May
- Timeline
- 7 May
- By country
What changed that day
The article grew by 11,814 characters that day. The largest single addition was 3,295 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-05-08 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.
How this was measured
Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.