Posted 2:14 PM 5/12/2026 by THOMAS ADAMSON and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press

PARIS (AP) — A French woman infected in the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship is critically ill and being treated with an artificial lung, a doctor at the Paris hospital caring for the sickened passenger said Tuesday. The outbreak has now reached 11 total reported cases, 9 of (More)

Posted 2:05 PM 5/11/2026 by SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An outbreak aboard a cruise ship of a rare rodent-borne illness called hantavirus has left three passengers dead and sickened others, but global health officials say the risk to the general public remains low because the germ does not easily spread between (More)

Posted 7:37 PM 5/8/2026 by DAVID BILLER and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press

MADRID (AP) — In the days since the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, concern has taken hold among at least some of its Spanish passengers — but not so much because they fear contracting the illness. Rather, they are afraid of how they will be received back (More)

Posted 11:39 AM 5/7/2026 by SUMAN NAISHADHAM, MOLLY QUELL, and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press

MADRID (AP) — Health authorities across four continents Thursday were tracking down and monitoring passengers who disembarked a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship before its deadly outbreak was detected, and trying to trace others who may have come into contact with them since then.

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