EU countries prepare repatriation of hantavirus cruise passengers

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France, Germany, Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands will send planes to repatriate their citizens on the Tenerife-bound cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak, Spain said on Saturday. The European Union is sending ​two additional planes for the remaining European citizens, Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said during a briefing in Madrid. The U.S. and Britain, meanwhile, are arranging planes and contingency plans for non-EU citizens from countries unable to send air