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RFK Jr. overrules experts to keep hantavirus cruise ship passenger in quarantine
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has refused to release a cruise ship passenger exposed to hantavirus from the Nebraska quarantine facility where she is being held
US pays $750K to evacuate American aboard hantavirus cruise ship from remote island
The Trump administration has put up $750,000 to charter a private yacht to evacuate a single American citizen from a remote South Pacific island after she had been aboard a cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak
Argentina expands hantavirus probe, sending teams to trap and test rats in Mendoza
Argentina is expanding its investigation into a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship
Tools to fight hantavirus show promise despite limited funding. Now researchers hope to continue
There were no treatments or vaccines to protect people during the recent hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship
The cruise ship at center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak has to undergo extra cleaning
A cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak is undergoing further cleaning before it returns to its home port
Argentines hunting for source of hantavirus outbreak trap rats in southernmost city
Argentine investigators searching for the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise last month were trapping rodents in the forests surrounding the southernmost city of Ushuaia
Canadian national health agency confirms 1 positive hantavirus test
Canada's national health agency confirms that one of four Canadians returning from a cruise ship with a hantavirus outbreak has tested positive
Hantavirus-stricken cruise ship expected to arrive in the Netherlands
A cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak is set to arrive in the Dutch port of Rotterdam on Monday
6 passengers from hantavirus-hit ship arrive in Australia for 3-week quarantine
Six passengers from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak have arrived in Australia for a quarantine expected to last at least three weeks
Operator of hantavirus-hit ship will say by week's end when the vessel will resume cruises
The operator of the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak has told The Associated Press that it expects to know by the end of the week if the vessel will keep to its schedule for the coming months
Cruise ship passenger making best of quarantine in US after hantavirus outbreak
When Jake Rosmarin boarded the MV Hondius, he gleefully posted on social media that the ship would be home for 35 days as he and more than 100 other passengers and crew were to travel across the South Atlantic
A timeline of the hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship
An outbreak of the rare hantavirus unfolded over weeks on a cruise ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean
Spain reports new hantavirus case in passenger evacuated from cruise ship as outbreak grows to 11
Spain's health ministry says a Spanish passenger evacuated from the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak has tested positive for the virus
WHO head seeks to reassure residents of Spanish island where hantavirus-stricken ship is headed
The head of the World Health Organization is seeking to reassure residents of the Spanish island of Tenerife worried about the anticipated arrival there of a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship
Experts wonder 'Where is the CDC?' as a hantavirus outbreak unfolds on a cruise ship
Public health experts are questioning the U.S. government's response to the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship that involves Americans
What we don't know about the hantavirus outbreak as the cruise ship nears Spanish territory
Countries are preparing to manage 140 people on a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands
Spain readies for evacuations as a hantavirus-hit cruise ship heads for the Canary Islands
Spanish authorities are preparing to receive over 140 passengers and crew from a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands
Argentina's hot spot for cruises insists it didn't cause the hantavirus outbreak
Argentina’s tourism-dependent province — Tierra del Fuego, home to the southernmost city of Ushuaia — is reacting angrily to the idea that the deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard an Atlantic cruise ship may have emerged from its territory, pushing instea...
Dozens of passengers left hantavirus-stricken cruise ship after 1st fatality
Oceanwide Expeditions has revealed that 29 passengers disembarked from one of its cruise ships hit by a hantavirus outbreak on April 24
What to know about hantavirus, the illness linked to a cruise ship outbreak
Despite a cruise ship outbreak of a rare rodent-borne illness, global health officials say the risk to the general public remains low because hantavirus germs do not easily spread between people
The Latest: 3 passengers from virus-hit cruise ship evacuated to the Netherlands
Three people from a cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak, including the ship’s doctor, are being flown to the Netherlands for medical care
3 patients are being evacuated to Europe from cruise ship with hantavirus outbreak
The U.N. health agency says three patients on a cruise ship with suspected hantavirus infections are being flown to the Netherlands
Antarctica's tourism boom raises concerns about contamination and disease
A deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship that visited Antarctica has highlighted a growing tourism trend
Inside the cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak
Footage obtained by The Associated Press of a cruise ship in a rare-virus outbreak shows deserted decks and medical teams in protective gear as the vessel and its nearly 150 passengers and crew waited another day for help off West Africa
A cruise ship is waiting for help after 3 people died in a suspected hantavirus outbreak
A cruise ship with nearly 150 people is waiting for help off Cape Verde's coast in the Atlantic Ocean after three passengers died and three others were left seriously ill in a suspected hantavirus outbreak
A suspected outbreak of the rare hantavirus on a cruise ship in the Atlantic kills 3 people
The World Health Organization says that a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean has killed three people and sickened at least three others