Labor Day! South Australian scientists detect hantavirus outbreak within 24 hours
JOHANNESBURG: On the morning of May 1, South African infectious disease expert Lucille Blumberg was checking her email as she celebrated the Labor Day holiday in South Africa when an urgent message caught her eye.A British colleague monitoring disease in…
Can hantavirus make the penis shrink? Fact-checking wild claims after cruise ship outbreak
There is a crazy saying on social media, Hantavirus Can shrink a person penis Increases up to three inches in size. It is important to note that these claims come from unverified social media accounts and there is no scientific evidence to support these…
‘Not like coronavirus’: Indian-American scientist says US doesn’t need to panic about hantavirus
Indian-born scientist Jay Bhattacharya has urged Americans not to panic over a hantavirus outbreak linked to a cruise ship off Spain’s Canary Islands, insisting the situation is “not COVID-19” and is unlikely to turn into a large-scale…
Hantavirus outbreak: Cruise ship passengers start disembarking in Spain, all to be tested for symptoms
Passengers disembark from the hantavirus-infected cruise ship MV Hondius (AP Photo) The quarantined cruise ship began disembarking on Sunday after arriving in Tenerife, Spain’s Canary Islands, as an outbreak of hantavirus on a cruise ship sparked…
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…
Hantavirus-hit cruise ship sails to Canary Islands, passengers undergo medical tests
Hantavirus outbreak: 5 things you need to know about virus, three deaths among Atlantic cruise passengers
a suspected Hantavirus Outbreak on MV Hondius cruise ship off African coast, killing one three passengers. One of the deaths has been confirmed to be hantavirus, and the other cases are still under investigation, the New York Post reported. Three people…