WHO chief says Hantavirus outbreak ‘is not COVID’

The incident has drawn comparisons to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As hantavirus has dominated headlines, sparking fears of another debilitating pandemic, the CDC stressed that the risk of sweeping contagion...

More than 100 people have fallen ill with norovirus on a cruise ship that left Florida last week and is set to return soon, the Centers for...

A general view of the cruise ship MV Hondius stationary off the port of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, on May 3, 2026. AFP | Getty...

Remote expedition cruises to places like Antarctica and the Arctic are booming as affluent travelers increasingly seek out isolated, exper...

Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak on PBS NewsHour, Fox’s Liv...

The British passengers will have to self-isolate for 45 days

U.S. citizens potentially exposed to hantavirus amid the deadly outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship could be on their way back to the...

The deaths of three passengers aboard the expedition cruise ship MV Hondius have triggered an international scramble to trace passengers and...

The MV Hondius is currently traveling to the Canary Islands, where the 147 people on board will be methodically off-boarded and flown home.

A spate of cases on an Arctic cruise has left the public scrambling for information on the rare but deadly virus

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has activated its 24/7 emergency center and classified hantavirus as the lowest activat...

Health officials have identified at least eight confirmed or suspected cases of hantavirus tied to an outbreak on the M/V Hondius cruise shi...

The recent hantavirus outbreak aboard an expedition cruise ship has prompted concerns over its potential spread beyond the vessel.