India, May 7 -- Doctors have spoken out about hantavirus after three people suspected to have contracted it were medically evacuated from a cruise ship. They include a 56-year-old British man named Martin Anstee, an expedition guide onboard the ship, the MV Hondius.

"I'm doing OK. I'm not feeling too bad. There are still lots of tests to be done. I have no idea how long I'll be in the hospital for. I'm in isolation at the moment," he later told Sky News.

Very little was known about the Andes strain before an outbreak in Epuyen, southern Argentina, in 2018, which killed at least 11 people, said Dr. Gustavo Palacios, a microbiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, according to CNN.

"There is very limited expe...