An American passenger quarantining at a Nebraska facility after being exposed to hantavirus aboard a cruise ship says he plans to remain there the full 42 days.
As the number of norovirus cases rise and hantavirus lingers on cruise ships, health officials advise passengers to take precautionary measures to avoid sickness.
Spanish authorities on Friday were preparing to receive more than 140 passengers and crew members on board a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands.
The CDC has activated its Emergency Operations Center and classified a hantavirus outbreak as a Level 3 response, the agency's lowest level of emergency activation, signaling a low risk to the general public.
More than two dozen people from at least 12 different countries left a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak without contact tracing, officials say
An epidemiologist from the World Health Organization said that the suspected hantavirus cluster aboard a cruise ship is not the beginning of another COVID-19 pandemic.