An unusual hantavirus outbreak at sea is drawing global focus to a rare rodent-borne disease capable of causing severe lung or kidney failure.

Recent hantavirus concerns tied to a cruise ship outbreak are raising questions about the rare virus and how it spreads. Here is what you need to know.

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The strain of hantavirus that has killed three people and sickened five others on a cruise ship is the Andes strain. Here's what to know.

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Hantavirus, a rare disease typically caused by exposure to infected rodents’ urine or feces, is suspected in the deaths of three people after an outbreak aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

A virus that officials say “has a relatively high death rate” has led to COVID-style health checks at several airports in Asia. Five people in in West Bengal, India, have contracted the Nipah virus, according to the Thai government, while India’s ...

Nipah virus is a zoonotic virus. It usually transmits from animals to humans, though it can also spread between people or through contact with food containing the virus. Currently, human cases of Nipah virus infection have been reported only in India ...

The outbreak, linked to multiple infections and several deaths, has raised questions about how hantavirus spreads and why some patients are being transported to hospitals such as Emory Hospital.