Author: Claudinne Miller
Vox: We’re asking the wrong question about the hantavirus outbreak
Vox The problem with hantavirus coverage isn’t the alarmism. Should you be worried about the hantavirus outbreak? Should you be afraid? Should you be panicking? Should you start freaking out? If you’ve been following the coverage of the hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius, these are the questions you’ve seen posed in headlines. And a small tip […]
May 13, 2026
NYT: The Hantavirus Outbreak Is Resurrecting Covid-Era Misinformation Tactics
NYT Experts say A.I. tools have made it even easier for influencers and others to spread false messages online. Influencers and others on social media have seized on the hantavirus outbreak to revive disinformation that sowed distrust during the Covid-19 pandemic. Some users on X have called the outbreak, which began on a Dutch cruise ship and […]
May 13, 2026
UNMC: 16 U.S. citizens safely repatriated to UNMC, Nebraska Medicine
UNMC Sixteen Americans who were on a cruise ship associated with a hantavirus outbreak have been repatriated to UNMC and Nebraska Medicine. They arrived in Omaha early Monday on a U.S. Department of State plane from the Canary Islands. Fifteen were “resting now” on Monday morning in the National Quarantine Unit at the Davis Global […]
May 11, 2026
Are military dolphins working in the Strait of Hormuz? Probably not, but they have been part of the US Navy for decades
CNN With concerns about Iran laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was asked Tuesday whether Iran might turn to dolphins to help confront the US Navy. He said that he could “confirm” that Iran didn’t have dolphins to deploy as part of operations but said he would neither “confirm or […]
May 6, 2026
Large language models and misinformation
The Lancet The barrage of misinformation in the field of health care is persistent and growing. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) in health care has expedited the increase in misinformation, and LLMs are susceptible to false output if they are trained on incorrect health-care information. This risk of misinformation is especially […]
May 6, 2026
New research chips away at COVID-19 blood clot myster
CIDRAP Doctors and scientists are still working to understand why COVID-19 can cause fatal damage to so many different organs. A potentially major piece of that puzzle was revealed today in research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitalized patients who weren’t sick enough to be in the intensive care unit […]
May 6, 2026
Will the USA lose its measles elimination status?
The Lancet The USA currently faces its largest measles outbreak in decades, with 2280 confirmed cases in 2025 and 910 additional cases reported in just the first 6 weeks of 2026.1 This re-emergence threatens one of the country’s major public health achievements: the elimination of measles in 2000, a feat reached after several years of extensive […]
May 6, 2026
Rabid beaver attacks 8-year-old boy, other park guests at New Jersey lake
NBC News 4 A beaver that attacked multiple people, including at least one child, at a lake in New Jersey has tested positive for rabies, according to town officials. Police in Mahwah responded to Lake Henry around 6 p.m. Sunday after a report of an animal attack. An 8-year-old boy had been fishing from the […]
May 6, 2026
A dangerous experiment is playing out on a cruise ship with hantavirus
Scientific American The tragic and fatal outbreak of hantavirus onboard a luxury cruise ship highlights the gaps in research and treatments for the rare and mysterious infection—including how the virus spreads among people. The fatal outbreak of hantavirus on a cruise ship is a tragic case study in how pathogens in this mysterious family of […]
May 6, 2026
Hantavirus, COVID, norovirus, legionnaires’: why are cruise ships so prone to disease outbreaks?
The Conversation Cruises are sold as floating holidays, but they are also useful for understanding public health. Cruise ships are carefully designed places where many people live, eat, relax and move through the same shared spaces for days at a time. They show how easily illness can spread when people are packed into a single […]
May 6, 2026