From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story on Saturday. I'm Manvien Rana.

What started as a once-in-a-lifetime wildlife cruise quickly turned into an international health emergency.

Passengers aboard the M.V. Hondas were travelling through the South Atlantic

when several people fell seriously ill with Hanta virus, a rare but deadly infection.

Three passengers died, others were evacuated, and health authorities across multiple

countries scrambled to try and avert a crisis. At the time of recording, there have been 11 confirmed

cases, three deaths and 20 people in the UK now are self-isolating.

But major questions remain.

Could the virus have been could the virus have been detected sooner,

and did delays at sea allow it to spread further?

This is the story of the cruise ship outbreak that shocked the world,

written by Maddie Spence and read by Shabnam Gurawal.

In the last week of March, Esther Ben Daniels, a bird-watching guide in the remote Argentinian town of Uswaya, took an elderly French couple to his local rubbish dump.

The pair had hired Daniels for a private tour in the hope of seeing a white-throated Kara-Kara, which scavengers there.

It's a famous sight, so many people go to see the birds there, Daniel tells the Sunday times, saying he's also taken an American woman and a British man bird watching at the dump.

A week later he said goodbye to his clients as they boarded the M.V. Hondias, the ship that would take them to some of the world's most remote islands to spot rare birds, dolphins and humpback whales.

For them and the other passengers on board, totaling with the crew almost 150 people of 28 nationalities,

it was the journey of a lifetime.

Within weeks, three of the passengers were dead.

Having been infected with hantavirus,

a lethal pathogen carried by rats.

It all raises questions about whether the presence of an infectious

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