Since the start of the outbreak, the World Health Organization has stressed that the risk to the broader public is low.

Further three people taken ill, including 69-year-old Briton reported to be in intensive care in South Africa

The outbreak of hantavirus, an infection that is usually transmitted to humans from rodents, occurred on a cruise ship that was traveling from Argentina to Cape Verde. Though…

The Dutch-flagged cruise ship is now sitting off the coast of the West African island nation of Cape Verde, while the situation is being monitored by the World Health Organization.

The World Health Organization says that a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean has killed three people.

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…

Officials say they will not authorise docking ‘to protect public health’ after deaths of three passengers

Cape Verde's health authorities on Monday denied permission to dock at the port of Praia to polar cruise ship MV Hondius, on board which the World Health Organization (WHO) has…

A cruise ship with 150 people is stranded near Cape Verde amid a suspected hantavirus outbreak, awaiting urgent medical assistance.

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

The hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius departed Cape Verde for Tenerife on Wednesday, as authorities rush to trace anyone who may have come into contact with the virus.

The World Health Organization said the risk to the wider public was low but added that limited human-to-human transmission had been reported in some strains of the virus.

The United National health agency added that there are five other suspected cases and that further investigations are ongoing.

Two cases of the virus, which rarely spreads between humans, have been confirmed on the ship, and three people have died.

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

Spain's health ministry said the MV Hondius is expected to arrive within three to four days.

Swiss authorities confirmed the third Hantavirus case linked to the Hondius cruise ship outbreak—a man who sailed onboard in April—as the vessel is set to sail to the Canary…

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

The president of the Canary Islands said he was opposed to allowing the ship to dock in Tenerife and requested an urgent meeting with the prime minister.

Andes strain the cause of infection in two cases, says South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases

The public health risk for hantavirus in the rest of the world remains low, the World Health Organization said.