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

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

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,…

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.

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

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

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…

As we learn more about the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship, one expert breaks down what we should know about the virus' incubation period.

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

Some passengers potentially exposed to hantavirus have already taken flights to numerous countries.