Credit: Donald Tong from Pexels Prisoners in England are 41 to 67 times more likely to experience avoidable harms as a result of poor health care than the general public, suggest the findings of a case note review of medical…
Health workers in protective gear evacuate patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. Credit: AP Photo/Misper Apawu Hantaviruses do not spread easily between people, which makes health officials confident…
While social and economic factors are often viewed as primary drivers of health, a new analysis in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) suggests that the relationship between societal position and physical well-being is more complex than previously understood.…
Credit: Jsme MILA from Pexels New research led by the Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA) Research Center at SAHMRI and Flinders University has revealed older Australians receiving home care services are significantly less likely to be hospitalized when they continue…
The MV Hondius cruise ship departs the port in Praia, Cape Verde, May 6, 2026. Credit: AP Photo/Misper Apawu The MV Hondius, a Dutch cruise ship with a deadly outbreak of hantavirus, was on its way to the Canary Islands…
Young people use their phones to view social media in Sydney, Nov. 8, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File Health and wellness advice is available in abundance on social media—from trendy to informative to straight-up disinformation—and you’re far from alone…
Originally, video games were a product you paid for once and that then provided as many hours of entertainment as users wanted to spend at the computer or console. Now, however, on the mobile phones that are in almost everybody’s…
Recent news reports have highlighted several infectious diseases incidents, including three tuberculosis clusters in Singapore and a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Here are responses to these cases by infectious disease experts from Duke-NUS…
Life cycle of Orthohantavirus. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA As an Atlantic cruise ship remains isolated off the South African coast due to a deadly hantavirus outbreak, the world watches with anticipation to learn more about this uncommon but dangerous…
View from the bridge of the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius after its arrival at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Sunday, May 10, 2026. Credit: AP Photo A hantavirus-stricken cruise ship with more than 140 people…
The MV Hondius cruise ship anchored at port in Praia, Cape Verde, Monday, May 4, 2026. Credit: AP Photo/Arilson Almeida The deaths of three people aboard a small cruise ship during a suspected outbreak of hantavirus demonstrate the potential deadliness…
Credit: CDC/Cynthia Goldsmith The World Health Organization said Saturday it considered everyone on board a cruise ship hit with a deadly hantavirus outbreak as “high-risk” contacts who should be actively monitored for 42 days. There are nearly 150 people on…
Health personnel boarding the cruise ship MV Hondius, while stationary off the port of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, on May 6, 2026. An outbreak of the deadly hantavirus on a Dutch-flagged cruise ship is reviving conspiracy theories about…
A deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard the expedition cruise ship MV Hondius has triggered an international health response after at least three passengers died and several others fell ill during a voyage in the South Atlantic. Health officials across multiple countries…
Credit: CDC/Cynthia Goldsmith An elderly man had just started running a fever when he walked into a birthday party in the Argentine village of Epuyen in 2018. That began the last “super-spreader” event of the Andes strain of hantavirus, before…
Credit: Siegfried Poepperl from Pexels The World Health Organization said Friday the risk to the public of a deadly hantavirus strain in a cruise ship outbreak was minimal, as it spreads only through “very close contact.” An outbreak on the…
The MV Hondius cruise ship anchored off Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, following a hantavirus outbreak on board. The first hantavirus case on the MV Hondius could not have been infected during the cruise, a World Health Organization expert…
Health workers in protective gear evacuate patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship into an ambulance at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. Credit: AP Photo/Misper Apawu An outbreak aboard a cruise ship of a rare…
Passengers are disembarked from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Sunday, May 10, 2026. Credit: AP Photo/Manu Fernandez An outbreak aboard a cruise ship of a rare rodent-borne illness called…
The MV Hondius cruise ship is anchored at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Monday, May 4, 2026. Credit: AP Photo/Arilson Almeida An outbreak aboard a cruise ship of a rare, a rodent-borne illness called hantavirus has left three people…
The Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius off the coast of the Cape Verde capital Praia. The MV Hondius cruise ship, hit by a rare hantavirus outbreak believed to have killed three people, is sailing from Cape Verde toward the Spanish…
Hantavirus: pour les experts, le défi d’informer sans réveiller la peur du Covid. Thrust back into the front line by a deadly hantavirus outbreak, infectious disease experts have to balance informing the public about its potential risks without provoking undue…
The MV Hondius cruise ship departs the port in Praia, Cape Verde, May 6, 2026. Credit: AP Photo/Misper Apawu In February 2025, the classical pianist Betsy Arakawa died in her New Mexico home from a virus most people had never…
A deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship has spurred global concern over the potential spread of the virus among and from ship evacuees as they head back to their home countries. Here are the World Health Organization’s main recommendations…
Cruises are sold as floating holidays, but they are also useful for understanding public health. Cruise ships are carefully designed places where many people live, eat, relax and move through the same shared spaces for days at a time. They…
Credit: Denitsa Kireva from Pexels A deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship has revived bitter memories of when COVID-19 first emerged, but health experts have emphasized the two viruses are very different—and have sought to assuage fears of another…
Karin Ellen Veldkamp, head of infectious diseases at Leiden University Medical Centre, said her unit was ready to receive more patients if required. The hantavirus that has broken out on the cruise ship MV Hondius is much less transmissible than…
Credit: Michelangelo Buonarroti from Pexels For many people, news of a virus outbreak on a cruise ship immediately brings back memories of COVID spreading when the Ruby Princess docked in Sydney in March 2020. Of the passengers and crew who…
The MV Hondius cruise ship anchored at port in Praia, Cape Verde, Monday, May 4, 2026. Credit: AP Photo/Arilson Almeida The Global Virus Network (GVN), representing eminent human and animal virologists from more than 90 Centers of Excellence and Affiliates…
Credit: CDC/Cynthia Goldsmith There are six confirmed cases of hantavirus so far out of eight suspected ones following an outbreak on a cruise ship, the World Health Organization said Friday. “As of 8 May, a total of eight cases, including…
Credit: Diego F. Parra from Pexels Here is a roundup of which countries have confirmed or probable cases of nationals infected by hantavirus after the outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius, according to the World Health Organization. Among living…
Credit: Denitsa Kireva from Pexels The World Health Organization said Thursday that more hantavirus cases could emerge after the disease killed three passengers from a cruise ship, but it expected the outbreak to be limited if precautions were taken. Another…
The rural family home where Rodrigo Morinigo, who died from hantavirus in January at the age of 14, lived with his family when he contracted the illness in San Andres de Giles, Argentina, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. Credit: AP Photo/Victor…
Children who need life-saving emergency surgery after a serious injury are almost six times more likely to die in poorer countries than in wealthier ones, according to an international study led by the University of Cambridge. The research, published in…
Across Europe, elevator capacity signs for the maximum number of passengers permitted based on weight are out of date with current obesity trends, finds new research being presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO26) in Istanbul, Turkey (12–15 May).…
Pregnant women in the United States are routinely tested for gestational diabetes, a condition where the body has high blood sugar during pregnancy that can lead to health problems for both mothers and babies. But even when the mother has…
As the world works to alter the trajectory of climate change, most attention focuses on reducing humanity’s reliance on fossil fuels and lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Yet a major source of carbon dioxide (CO2) is cement production, which accounts for…
Consumption of eggs is associated with a lower risk of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease for those 65 years and older, according to researchers at Loma Linda University Health. Eating one egg per day for at least five days a…
EYFP-gCENH3cenh3-1 exhibits different levels of EYFP-CENH3 in male and female gametes in A. thaliana. Credit: Plant Communications (2026). DOI: 10.1016 An international research team led by the IPK Leibniz Institute has succeeded in generating haploids in the model plant Arabidopsis…
Qiaofeng Ye and Idan Shalev in their laboratory. Credit: Dennis Maney / Penn State Children who experienced abuse or neglect displayed disrupted development and decreased ability to maintain stable function of internal bodily systems, according to a new study led…
