The federal health agency wasn't in charge of inspecting the cruise ship where a hantavirus outbreak occurred in 2026, contrary to posts' suggestions.

Despite rising concern about the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, two CDC doctors say the risk to the public remains low.

Seventeen Americans who sailed on an Antarctic expedition cruise ship are now confined inside a federal quarantine unit in Omaha, Nebraska, that was built to handle Ebola patients. They arrived early Monday after being pulled off the M/V Hondius,

A plane carrying 18 Americans exposed to hantavirus on a cruise ship in Spain arrived at Eppley Airfield just before 2:30 a.m. Monday.

A CDC spokesperson tells PEOPLE that its Vessel Sanitation Program “continues to carry out all core program activities for cruise ships under U.S. jurisdiction” following the 2025 layoffs

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a Health Alert Network Health Advisory May 8 notifying clinicians and health departments of the potential for imported cases of hantavirus disease,

As hantavirus has dominated headlines, sparking fears of another debilitating pandemic, the CDC stressed that the risk of sweeping contagion was small.

Ten people who were potentially exposed to the Andes strain of hantavirus are being monitored in five U.S. states, officials said.