Feature: Floating quarantine: hantavirus evacuation operation unfolds off Tenerife

TENERIFE, Spain, May 10 (Xinhua) -- At around 5:30 a.m. local time (0430 GMT) on Sunday, the cruise ship MV Hondius, linked to a hantavirus outbreak, slowly entered the waters off the Port of Granadilla on the Spanish island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands.

In the dim pre-dawn light, the vessel, which had drawn international attention for days, did not dock at the pier. Instead, it dropped anchor about 500 met