"At this stage, the overall public health risk remains low," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday.

Eight suspected cases of hantavirus have now been linked to the luxury cruise ship

The Spanish government sparked a furious backlash after saying that the virus-stricken MV Hondius would dock in Tenerife by the end of the w...

Passengers stuck on board the vessel have had mixed reactions.

A rat-borne pathogen has killed three people and sparked a public health panic A hantaviru...

Fernando Clavijo, the president of the Canary Islands, has opposed the Spanish government's plan to have the ship docked off the city of Ten...

Health personnel helping patients, believed to be infected with hantavirus, disembark from the MV Hondius cruise ship stationed off the coas...

Three people have died from the disease so far but the WHO says the risk to the public is still 'low'.

Three passengers were evacuated from the vessel and human-to-human transmission has been confirmed in Switzerland and South Africa.

The cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak and which is stuck of the coast of Cape Verde with nearly 150 people on board...

The Canary Islands' president has requested a meeting with Spain’s leader to discuss the decision to allow the ship to dock.

The MV Hondius is expected to sail to the Canary Islands after Spain agreed to receive the vessel on humanitarian grounds...

A live tracker shows the MV Hondius after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship.

South Africa confirmed that it identified among the victims a strain of the virus that can — in rare cases — spread among humans.

The two crew members will be evacuated via Cape Verde to the Netherlands , allowing the vessel to sail on to the Canaries.