The recent coverage of a cruise ship hit with a deadly hantavirus outbreak is painfully familiar to cruisers who spent days and weeks trapped in their cabins at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2

Health officials are monitoring two Georgia residents who returned from a cruise ship linked to a deadly hantavirus outbreak.

Those eager to discredit Pfizer's mRNA vaccine, which is safe and effective, exploited the cruise ship outbreak.

"COVID spread very, very easily, and it spread even when you didn't have symptoms," Jha said. "None of that is true for hantavirus. So this is something that is going to kind of burn itself out in the upcoming weeks or months." Not only is hantavirus rare, but the strain identified in the cruise ship outbreak is "very rare," according to Jha.

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The latest hantavirus outbreak raises the question of how does hantavirus compare with other viruses that have posed major public health challenges.

A little-known tree from Brazil’s Atlantic Forest may hold a surprising weapon against COVID-19. Researchers discovered that compounds called galloylquinic acids, extracted from its leaves, can attack SARS-CoV-2 on multiple fronts—blocking the virus from entering cells,

The WHO chief assured the people of Tenerife Saturday that the risk to them from an arriving cruise ship hit with a deadly hantavirus outbreak was "low".