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Six passengers from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak arrived Friday in Australia for a quarantine expected to last at least three weeks.

A hantavirus outbreak is extremely unexpected. Part of the confusion in press coverage has arisen from the messiness of...

The 12 will be quarantined for six weeks, the Radboudumc hospital in the city of ‌Nijmegen said, adding that the infection risk was very low and patient care continued uninterrupted.

From Independent RSS Feed: Oregon doctor on hantavirus cruise shares his optimism after testing positive: ‘It’s amazing how quickly time flies’

A potential hantavirus case not linked to the outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship has been reported in Illinois, according to the state’s health agency.

Extensive testing, contact tracing, and quarantine procedures are still needed to contain the outbreak, WHO says. However, it has stressed that the current outbreak is vastly different to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As passengers evacuate the hantavirus-hit MV Hondius cruise ship, a French woman and two US citizens tested positive.

The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius poses an ‘extremely low’ overall risk to the public, health officials said

The American national has arrived in Nebraska, while a French woman is isolating in Paris.

The US decision not to quarantine passengers of the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, the MV Hondius, could be dangerous, the World Health Organization chief has said

Passengers on the ill-fated cruise from several European countries, including Germany, are returning home and will be screened by health authorities. One French woman developed symptoms on the return flight. Follow DW.

The 17 Americans still stranded aboard the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius cruise ship are set to be evacuated to a quarantine center in Nebraska in the coming days, the CDC said Sunday – but not un…

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

From Independent RSS Feed: Hantavirus latest: Cruise ship evacuation begins in ‘unprecedented’ operation off Tenerife

“It sort of brought back terrible memories that we had because we had no idea the significance of what was happening to us,” one Covid cruise passenger said.

The BBC's Sarah Rainsford reports from Tenerife where the MV Hondius has arrived, after a deadly hantavirus outbreak.

Germany and the US are among the countries sending aircraft to evacuate their citizens from the MV Hondius cruise ship. The ship is expected to arrive in Tenerife on Sunday morning.

The MV Hondius is expected to dock in Tenerife early Sunday, where passengers will undergo screening before being transferred to isolated areas under strict health protocols.

The world has watched the news of deaths and evacuations anxiously, and those still onboard MV Hondius face a wary reception in the Canary Islands

From Nypost RSS Feed: New photos show stranded cruise ship passengers passing time as health workers watch for hantavirus symptoms