All news on the topic: Hantavirus

The Canary Islands have recorded a significant drop in tourists from countries outside Spain earlier this year, the first since the end of the pandemic, new data has revealed.

Key officials responsible for leading US research on infectious disease threats have been barred from speaking directly with the World Health Organization.

People in Wales are self-isolating due to links with the ongoing hantavirus outbreak, it has been confirmed.

Four Australian citizens who were aboard the MV Hondius, the cruise ship at the centre of the hantavirus outbreak, will soon be home after the government secured a suitable aircraft and crew for the journey.

A British man has been detained in a bar despite being under quarantine orders for hantavirus in Italy.

A French woman infected with a severe form of hantavirus is on life support in a hospital in Paris after returning from a rat virus-stricken cruise.

Ten Brits linked to a deadly rat virus outbreak on a cruise ship are being flown to the UK to isolate.

The head of the World Health Organization has told countries to prepare for more hantavirus cases as authorities in Paris said a French woman.

A deadly virus outbreak on a cruise ship that no government was willing to accept sounds like a nightmare scenario.

A French woman who tested positive for hantavirus after she was evacuated from a cruise ship reported symptoms to doctors onboard but was told it was probably just anxiety, the Spanish health minister has said.

Two rat plague ship evacuees have tested positive for the deadly disease just hours after health officials had given them the all-clear to leave the ship.

On Friday it was confirmed that a British national with suspected hantavirus disembarked the ship at the remote volcanic island of Tristan da Cunha, which is where they live.

As the MV Hondius set sail from Ushuaia, the world's southernmost city, on April 1st, the gray skies over Tierra del Fuego cleared, lighting up the fresh snow on the mountain peaks and the autumn foliage closer to the shore.

British passengers and crew from the cruise ship at the center of the hantavirus outbreak are set to be taken to a hospital in Merseyside to isolate.

An outbreak of hantavirus on board a cruise ship is not the start of a pandemic, the UN health agency has said.

The UK and US have activated virus control protocols to combat the possible spread of a rodent-borne illness from a cruise ship.