The World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday that additional hantavirus infections linked to a cruise ship outbreak cannot be ruled out, as health...

Leaving the WHO means the U.S. lacks access to necessary information about infectious disease.

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.

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 World Health Organization said Tuesday it is investigating a rare instance of possible human-to-human transmission of hantavirus among close contacts...

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.

The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that a deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship does not resemble the early stages of the...

Countries around the world raced Thursday to track down passengers who disembarked from a cruise ship struck by a Hantavirus outbreak before it was...

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

There are now five confirmed hantavirus cases from the Atlantic cruise ship outbreak, with three more suspected, the World Health Organization (WHO) said...

The update came after officials confirmed that exposed passengers from 12 countries left a cruise ship before the virus with a high mortality rate was detected.

Here are key takeaways from a WHO briefing on the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship.

Experts say spread of the hantavirus should be “limited”—despite two more suspected cases discovered Friday.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday that additional hantavirus infections linked to a cruise ship outbreak cannot be ruled out, as health...

More than a dozen countries have been linked to the hantavirus outbreak, as the WHO confirms five cases of the disease. Alex Croft reports

This is not COVID," and other reasons why risk to the public is currently low.

The head of the World Health Organization has arrived in Spain prior to the arrival of the Hantavirus-hit cruise ship

Passengers aboard a cruise ship hit by a deadly Hantavirus outbreak that triggered international concern began returning home Sunday from the Canary...