‘A perfect storm.’
That’s how virologist Dr Jay Hooper describes the chain of events that likely lead to a deadly viral outbreak on a cruise ship now quarantined in the northern Atlantic Ocean with more than 140 passengers on board.
‘It takes a very, very rare widow for all of these things to happen,’ Dr Hooper told the Daily Mail in an exclusive interview.
That may have happened aboard the MV Hondius.
The Dutch-flagged expedition vessel was traveling from the southern-most tip of Argentina to the coast of West Africa in early April when the first passengers became ill.
Within a month, three people were
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