Category: Emerging Infectious Diseases
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
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
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
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