Hantavirus, a rare disease often caused by contact with droppings from infected rodents, is suspected in the deaths of three people who were aboard a cruise ship sailing the Atlantic Ocean. Hantavirus is most commonly transmitted by breathing in particles of dried rodent droppings or urine. In rare cases, it may spread among people, according […]
Hantaviruses have most likely been around as long as rodents, but little was known about these pathogens before the 20th century. This rare family of viruses that rodents carry has been cited as the source of a deadly outbreak aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The virus is zoonotic, meaning it can be […]
Health officials in a growing list of countries scrambled Thursday to track people connected to a deadly outbreak of the hantavirus on a cruise ship. The World Health Organization also predicted a “limited” spread of the virus if public health measures were enacted. Human-to-human transmission of the hantavirus, a family of viruses carried by rodents, […]
