Author: Claudinne Miller
Contagion Live: A Glimpse Inside the Facilities Housing the Quarantined Cruise Ship Passengers
Contagion Live The University of Nebraska’s Mark Rupp, MD, weighs in on his institution’s facilities where passengers are being housed during the quarantine protocol, insights on how they are monitored, and their current medical conditions. As of this morning, there are now 11 people infected with the hantavirus (Andes species) from the cruise ship. The […]
May 13, 2026
CDC: Concurrent Detection of Swine-Origin Influenza A(H1N1) Virus in Pigs and Farmer, Switzerland
CDC Since the 2009 swine influenza pandemic, sporadic human infections with swine influenza A viruses (swIAVs) continue to occur, including rare instances of onward human-to-human transmission, highlighting the ongoing pandemic risk (1–4). Pigs are key reservoirs and mixing vessels for influenza A virus (IAV) evolution; transmission between humans and pigs is frequent and bidirectional (5,6). […]
May 13, 2026
AVMA: CDC confirms cat-to-human transmission of avian influenza
AVMA A public health investigation documented the transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAI, more specifically avian influenza type A H5N1) from a domestic cat to a human, but health officials maintain that the risk remains low. Last spring, investigators with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LACDPH) and Centers for Disease […]
May 13, 2026
The Conversation: Hantavirus is very different to COVID. Here’s why the ‘Andes virus’ won’t cause the next pandemic
The Conversation For many people, news of a virus outbreak on a cruise ship immediately brings back memories of COVID spreading when the Ruby Princess docked in Sydney in March 2020. Of the passengers and crew who disembarked, 575 had COVID. The virus then spread to the community. So it’s understandable people are concerned that passengers from […]
May 13, 2026
NYT: French Hantavirus Patient Is Critically Ill as Outbreak Reaches 11 Cases
NYT The woman, who was a passenger on the MV Hondius, was breathing with the help of an artificial lung, officials in Paris said. A French woman with hantavirus who had traveled on the MV Hondius cruise ship was critically ill on Wednesday, officials said, as the number of identified cases in the outbreak climbed to […]
May 13, 2026
MedPage Today: These States Are Watching for Potential Hantavirus Cases
MedPage Today Some people who may have been exposed to a hantavirus that can transmit from human to human returned to the U.S. before the outbreak aboard a cruise ship was known. This includes seven Americans who disembarked the ship on the remote island of St. Helena on April 24. MedPage Today broke that story last week. It […]
May 13, 2026
MedPage Today: Hantavirus, Ivermectin, and the Dangers of the Internet
MedPage Today Clear communication with patients can help drown out misinformation. Back in March 2020, I did an interview with a CBS affiliate in Denver. While I was asked several questions about COVID-19 and pandemics in general, the interview was very short. To this day, I believe the most important piece of advice I shared didn’t make the cut: […]
May 13, 2026
Harvard Gazette: Hantavirus likely to be fully contained but may take time, Hanage says
Harvard Gazette Disease much deadlier than COVID but a lot harder to spread. The public health focus surrounding the deadly hantavirus outbreak on the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius is now turning to preventing onward transmission, as the 18 American passengers of the vessel arrived in the U.S. on Monday and most of the rest […]
May 13, 2026
Psychology Today: Why the Hantavirus Outbreak Feels Different
Psychology Today Public health’s hardest job is explaining what we don’t know. The global hantavirus outbreak highlights one of the hardest tasks in public health: communicating uncertainty without creating either panic or false reassurance. That challenge becomes especially difficult during outbreaks caused by rare pathogens, where scientific evidence is limited, the number of historical cases is small, […]
May 13, 2026
Wired: All Your Hantavirus Questions, Answered by an Infectious Disease Expert
Wired Here’s what you need to know, from why the cruise ship outbreak won’t spark the next pandemic to how hantavirus spreads. Now that more than 100 passengers aboard a hantavirus-stricken luxury cruise ship have been evacuated, with 18 Americans in biocontainment units in Nebraska and Georgia, health officials around the world are working to monitor more than […]
May 13, 2026