From medieval plague ships to hantaviruses: how maritime epidemics helped shape international public health systems
Chicago, cruise ships are convenient floating hotels through which to see far-flung parts of the world—but as an epidemiologist, I know they are also everything an infectious pathogen could want: thousands of strangers crammed into enclosed spaces for…
Two Indians on Hantavirus-hit ship
NEW DELHI: A rare outbreak of hantavirus reported on a cruise ship carrying two Indian crew members has sparked international concern, but Indian health experts and government agencies said there was no immediate cause for concern in the country as the…
Commentary: Will the hantavirus outbreak become Covid 2.0?
. Health authorities are scrambling to trace dozens of people who recently disembarked from the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius following a hantavirus outbreak that killed three people and infected many others.According to the World Health Organization…