Category: Hantavirus
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
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
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
Spanish passenger on the ‘Hondius’: ‘There are 23 people who got off on Saint Helena and have been wandering around’
El Pais Health authorities only began contacting the passengers who left the ship on Tuesday. Twenty‑three passengers from the MV Hondius have been on land for more than two weeks. They disembarked on April 21 on the island of Saint Helena, 10 days after the first death on board, and began their journeys home. That is what a […]
May 6, 2026
Cruise Ship’s Hantavirus Outbreak Could Have Started On Bird-Watching Trip
Forbes Key Background The MV Hondius left Ushuaia, Argentina on April 1 for the Canary Islands off the coast of northwestern Africa, visiting some of the world’s most remote islands along the way. The ship made stops in Antarctica, South Georgia, Nightingale Island, Tristan da Cunha, St. Helena (where the Dutch man’s body was taken from the […]
May 6, 2026
Hantavirus-hit cruise ship to head to Canary Islands as Swiss confirm new case
Washington Post More than 140 people remain on the Hondius, which will take about three days to reach the Spanish archipelago for screening. A local official has criticized the plan. Three people were evacuated Wednesday from the cruise ship facing a hantavirus outbreak in the Atlantic Ocean, as Swiss health authorities confirmed another case in […]
May 6, 2026
A Brutal First for the Cruise Industry
The Atlantic A hantavirus outbreak is serious and unnerving. Norovirus loves a cruise ship. So did the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19. The crowded rooms, stuffy air, and communal dining of a giant boat filled with humans create the ideal conditions for pathogens to spread. Now hantavirus—a highly deadly rodent-borne pathogen that typically spreads when people […]
May 6, 2026