Health experts outline symptoms and risks of shipboard hantavirus

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260518/Health-experts-outline-symptoms-and-risks-of-shipboard-hantavirus.aspx Two Texans were aboard a cruise ship recently on which 147 passengers and crew may have been exposed to hantavirus – a severe, potentially fatal respiratory virus that originates from rodent droppings. The outbreak was reported to the World Health Organization on May 2, 2026, and the disease was quickly confirmed to be the Andes strain of hantavirus.