The first flight carrying evacuees from a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has triggered international concern left Spain’s Canary Islands on Sunday, an AFP journalist saw.

The first passengers and crew removed from the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius on the island of Tenerife are 14 Spaniards who will observe quarantine at a military hospital in Madrid.

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France. Founded in 1835 as Havas, it is the world's oldest news agency.

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