It is hardly a surprise that outbreaks can occur and experts say many of the factors involved are not easy to change

Health officials around the world are racing to calm public fears after a hantavirus outbreak aboard a luxury cruise ship in the Atlantic revived painful...

Buffets and shared spaces help make cruise ships ideal places for viruses to flourish, disease experts say. Still, Americans are booking cruises in record numbers.

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Outbreaks at sea are one of the oldest problems in public health. From medieval plague quarantines to modern times, they have repeatedly tested the ability to control infectious…

Recent outbreaks of hantavirus and norovirus on cruise ships are making headlines, but they’re unlikely to dim vacationers’ growing love of cruises.

Industry experts say the incidents are unlikely to dent demand – and cruise lines are still forecasting record passenger numbers worldwide this year.

It is hardly a surprise that outbreaks can occur and experts say many of the factors involved are not easy to change

From medieval plague ships to hantavirus: How outbreaks at sea helped to shape the international public health system

The outbreak on the MV Hondius set off alarms for a world still traumatised by Covid; for those on board, the danger was much closer

The ship, operated by Dutch company Oceanwide Expeditions, made headlines after three passengers died from hantavirus, a rare virus for which no vaccines nor specific treatments…