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

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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 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.

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

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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…

Scientists are worried that hantaviruses haven’t been as well studied as they ought to be, but not that the MV Hondius cruise ship is ground zero for the next pandemic.

The WHO said it expected the outbreak on the MV Hondius, currently sailing from Cape Verde to the Spanish island of Tenerife, to be limited, so long as public health measures were…

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

About 12 countries have so far been linked to the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius, as the UN health agency confirms at least five cases.

The World Health Organization says Hondius passengers will disembark in groups in Tenerife, Spain, before taking flights home amid hantavirus outbreak.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted that WHO experts on the ground are working together with the Spanish Health Ministry