The virus's long incubation period is making it difficult for investigators to pinpoint where the infection occurred.

Hantaviruses are groups of viruses – microscopic organisms that infect hosts – transmitted by mice and rats. They can cause serious, sometimes fatal, illnesses in people. Hantavirus disease is ...

The WHO director-general warned there could be more hantavirus cases identified in the "coming weeks." ...

Hantaviruses may also spread from person to person, but that also is rare and only suspected for one subtype, the Andes virus ...

Residents of multiple countries, including the United States, are being monitored for hantavirus after traveling on the MV Hondius, an Oceanwide Expeditions cruise ship now tied to several cases of ...

At least three passengers have died, and several other people are sick. The WHO considers the risk to the wider public from the outbreak as low and on Friday, confirmed that a flight attendant on a ...

The cruise ship upon which a deadly strain of hantavirus infected nearly one dozen people and killed three others is set to ...

Three people have died and eight others have fallen ill from a rare and extremely deadly strain of the virus, which investigators believe was brought on board by a Dutch couple who later succumbed to ...

Several states have either confirmed their residents were aboard the cruise ship or were otherwise exposed to the virus.

Officials in the United States are monitoring Americans who traveled on the cruise ship at the center of the hantavirus outbreak.