An outbreak of hantavirus has killed three on a cruise ship. Should you be worried? What to know about the Andes strain, how the virus spreads and symptoms.

But new cases are emerging as researchers race to track down where the outbreak originated. As authorities seek to arrange quarantines and access to health facilities for the passengers, communities ...

Here's what to know about the cruise-ship outbreak of Andes virus, a type of hantavirus that can spread person to person.

U.S. cases of hantavirus are rare, and generally don't transmit person to person. Hantavirus does not easily mutate and spread like COVID-19 and flu viruses do, making it easier f ...

Now that passengers on the hantavirus-stricken cruise have returned home, fears of continued spread and lockdowns loom. Here’s what experts want you to know.

An ecologist explains why the hantavirus cruise ship outbreak, while serious, will not become the next pandemic. The biology of Andes virus limits large-scale spread.

Although hantavirus can be deadly, researchers say the virus behaves very differently from COVID-19 and is easier to contain ...

A rodentborne virus with a scary name. A midocean cruise ship in quarantine. Several people dead and more falling sick. It is ...

The recent coverage of a cruise ship hit with a deadly hantavirus outbreak is painfully familiar to cruisers who spent days and weeks trapped in their cabins at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2 ...

Fri, May 8, 2026 The World Health Organisation has insisted a current outbreak of a deadly contagious disease onboard a cruise ship is not the start of another covid-style pandemic. Five cases of ...

Scientists have found measures to combat the Coronavirus pandemic had little impact on the reporting of foodborne infections in Argentina. The paper analyzed selected foodborne diseases in Argentina ...