The rare Andes hantavirus strain can spread between humans, but experts say infections remain uncommon and widespread outbreaks are unlikely. , Health, Times Now ...

The strain of hantavirus that has killed three people and sickened five others on a cruise ship is the Andes strain, which is typically found in South America including parts of Argentina, where the ...

The analysis of 34 infections after a party in Argentina confirms community transmission and the role of superspreaders — a ...

Is the current hantavirus outbreak destined to become the next COVID-19 pandemic? That has been the question circulating on social media after the news that eight passengers on the cruise ship MV ...

It’s been assumed that the virus is contagious only if someone is in close contact with someone who’s having symptoms.

"At this stage, the overall public health risk remains low," WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday.

The Andes virus strain linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship outbreak is the only hantavirus capable of spreading person to person, the WHO says.

Health authorities have identified the Andes strain of hantavirus, which can be transmitted from person to person in passengers who were on a cruise ship at the centre of a deadly outbreak of the rare ...

Laboratory tests have implicated the Andes virus, a specific type of hantavirus, in the cluster of illnesses on the cruise ship MV Hondius.

France’s Pasteur Institute has fully sequenced the Andes virus found in a French passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship.

Of the passengers and crew who disembarked, 575 had COVID. The virus then spread to the community. So it’s understandable people are concerned that passengers from the MV Hondius need to be ...