Hantavirus Outbreak: Bath Scientists Working on Vaccine

Health Officials Race to Track Hantavirus Cruise Ship Outbreak but Predict ‘Limited’ Spread

A Dutch flight attendant and French national were among the latest to be tested in connection with a deadly outbreak on a cruise ship. But an analysis in South Africa showed no mutations in viral samples.

Hantavirus Outbreak: Explainer: Can hantavirus outbreak become Covid 2.0? - The Times of India

Health authorities are urgently tracing passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship following a hantavirus outbreak that has claimed three lives. The Andes strain, capable of human-to-human transmission, was identified, prompting isolation and contact tracing. While not comparable to COVID-19, the virus requires close contact to spread.

Medical experts address hantavirus concerns in the Tri-State

In Eyewitness News' town hall discussion on measles, medical experts and health officials address the rising concern of hantavirus in NYC and NJ.

Fears rat-borne hantavirus has spread to seven countries

At the southernmost tip of South America, the resort town of Ushuaia, in Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego archipelago, is commonly referred to as “the end of the...

WHO says cruise ship hantavirus outbreak is not a pandemic risk

Amsterdam/Geneva: An outbreak of hantavirus on board a cruise ship is not the start of a pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, as global health authorities step up efforts to trace passengers and contain the spread.Maria van Kerkhove, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the WHO, told a news briefing that the situation differs significantly from the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing that hantavirus spreads primarily through "cl…

Could hantavirus be the next pandemic? Experts weigh in on what makes this strain different

An outbreak aboard a cruise ship of a rare rodent-borne illness called hantavirus has left three passengers dead and sickened others, with health authorities across four continents trying to track down and monitor passengers who disembarked the ship before its deadly outbreak was detected.