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

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

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

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…

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 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.

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

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

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…

The hantavirus that has killed three and sickened others on board a cruise ship is believed to be a variant that transmits from human to human.

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 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.

Three people have died and several others have been medically evacuated after the outbreak of a deadly hantavirus on a luxury cruise ship. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian…

The ship's doctor is among those believed to be infected. The ship itself is headed to Spain.

The Andes strain, which can be transmitted between humans via droplets of saliva, was identified on Wednesday through sequencing in three patients who had traveled aboard the MV…