The sickness starts with symptoms including a fever and chills and can quickly become life-threatening

Despite a cruise ship outbreak of a rare rodent-borne illness, global health officials say the risk to the general public remains low because hantavirus germs do not easily spread…

While rare, the disease can be transmitted to humans through inhalation of airborne particles from dried rodent droppings.

Three people who were aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean have died of suspected infections of hantavirus, a rodent-borne virus that can cause fatal respiratory illness,…

Rodent-carried disease is not usually contagious between humans and outbreaks are rare. ‘New world’ variants are the most deadly. What are the symptoms and treatment?

The sickness starts with symptoms including a fever and chills and can quickly become life-threatening

While three people have died of the disease on a cruise ship in the southern Atlantic, hantavirus presents a low risk to the public, the head of the World Health Organization…

Almost 150 people remained on the cruise ship after the deaths of three passengers. The risk to the public is low, World Health Organization says.

Three people have died after a suspected outbreak of hantavirus on a cruise ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

WHO says a total of seven hantavirus cases identified on cruise ship so far

A passenger trapped on board a cruise ship off the coast of West Africa has issued an emotional plea as medics worked to evacuate people showing symptoms of the deadly hantavirus,…

So far, one case of the potentially deadly virus has been confirmed, according to the World Health Organization, which stressed that the risk to the public remains low.

Three passengers on the cruise ship MV Hondius have died due to an outbreak of hantavirus, a rare illness transmitted by rodents

Three passengers have died after a suspected outbreak of hantavirus ripped through an Atlantic Ocean cruise ship, the MV Hondius. Hantavirus infections, which are usually spread…

Madeleine Finlay talks to Prof Jonathan Ball from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to find out more about the virus behind the outbreak on a luxury cruise ship

The crew member is understood to be experiencing acute respiratory symptoms

The sickness starts with symptoms including a fever and chills and can quickly become life-threatening

A deadly outbreak of the rare hantavirus unfolded over the course of weeks on a cruise ship that sailed from Argentina toward Antarctica and then across the Atlantic Ocean as…

WHO says a total of seven hantavirus cases identified on cruise ship MV Hondius so far

The virus usually spreads by contact with the urine or feces of infected rodents like rats and mice. It can cause a severe and sometimes deadly lung infection.

Experts break down the real risks of the disease and what the general public needs to know right now.