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Hantavirus outbreak is not another Covid pandemic
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Health officials across the United States and around the world are monitoring a rare but deadly outbreak of hantavirus after multiple confirmed cases were linked to a luxury cruise ship, including possible patients who weren't ever on the ship.
By Ahmed Aboulenein and Michael Erman WASHINGTON, May 13 (Reuters) - The risk from hantavirus to the general public remains very low, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more than 100 staff members actively working on the outbreak,
Jake Rosmarin was one of the 18 American passengers on the MV Hondius cruise ship. Now, he's spending 42 days in hantavirus quarantine.
A surprising factor could lead to an increase risk of hantavirus this spring.
The operator of the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak has told The Associated Press that it expects to know by the end of the week if the vessel will keep to its schedule for the coming months.
There is no cure for the hantavirus that has so far sickened at least nine people and killed three of them on a cruise ship outbreak, but several therapies have shown promise in animal studies
Scientists think the hantavirus, the deadly pathogen that has infected 11 passengers on a Dutch cruise ship, could be as old as humans.
It's possible the fact sheet was written before human-to-human transmission of hantavirus was first documented in one strain of hantavirus.