In 2002, Zermeño found out he contracted hantavirus after cleaning the family house following the death of his mother and sister. He had been exposed to rodent droppings and became infected.

As of Friday, the WHO said there are still eight cases: five people confirmed to have hantavirus and three others were suspected of contracting it.

A flight attendant who was not onboard the cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak has tested negative for the virus, the World Health Organization said Friday

Two New Jersey residents were potentially exposed to a person infected with hantavirus​, according to health officials.

Health authorities across several countries are racing to trace and contain an outbreak of hantavirus after the World Health Organization said Thursday that five confirmed infections had been identified among people connected to the cruise ship MV Hondius.

As efforts to contain the Andes hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius is underway, Medical News Today speaks to medical experts to fact check the latest claims around the spread of this disease.

A hantavirus vaccine is currently in preclinical development, but a publicly available shot is likely years away. Other similar research efforts are also in the very early stages.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is dispatching staffers to meet the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship in the Canary Islands, with plans to escort its American passengers back to the US aboard a charter flight,

Experts have been quick to reassure the public after the deaths aboard the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius, but images and turns of phrase have rekindled anxieties from Covid’s early days.

Hantaviruses typically spread through contact with infected rodents or their droppings. But the Andes virus is the only species of hantavirus currently thought capable of spreading through close contact between people. So this outbreak isn’t being caused by a previously undiscovered hantavirus.