GENEVA, Switzerland — The deadly hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks are only the latest crises in “dangerous and divisive” times, the World Health Organization chief said Monday. Opening the body’s annual decision-making assembly in Geneva, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus…
OMAHA, Neb. — The last remaining passengers on a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak disembarked Monday and boarded flights to more than 20 countries to enter quarantine. A French woman was the latest to…
TENERIFE, Canary Islands (AP) — U.S. health officials on late Sunday said one of the 17 American passengers evacuated from a cruise ship in the Canary Islands has tested positive for the hantavirus but is not showing…
The head of the World Health Organization will oversee the evacuation of a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed to the Canary Islands. …
MADRID — In the days since the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, concern has taken hold among at least some of its Spanish passengers — but not so much because they fear…
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to determine if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise. The health emergency aboard the ship that’s…
GENEVA – Hantavirus victims on the ship Hundius in the Atlantic Ocean may have been infected prior to joining the cruise, and human-to-human transmission on board cannot be ruled out, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. The agency…
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Ruhi Cenet was surprised when cruise-ship life carried on as usual aboard the MV Hondius, even after the captain announced the first passenger’s death. The Turkish travel vlogger had boarded the ship in Ushuaia,…
GENEVA — Hantavirus, associated with fatalities aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, is carried by rodents and can be lethal when passed to humans. Dutch cruise operator Oceanwide Expeditions said on Monday that it was…
GENEVA, Switzerland — Filipinos make up more than half of the crew members of the MV Hondius, the cruise ship where three passengers died with one other person on the trip now in the hospital with hantavirus.…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A rodent-borne illness is suspected of causing an outbreak aboard a cruise ship that has killed three people and sickened others. Studies indicate hantaviruses have been around for centuries, with outbreaks documented in Asia and Europe.…
PRAIA, Cape Verde — Three people have died on a cruise ship in the Atlantic, the WHO said Sunday, one a confirmed case of hantavirus — an illness usually transmitted to humans from rodents. The outbreak occurred…
