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Deadly hantavirus outbreak on ship poses 'low' risk to wider public, WHO says

May 7, 2026

The World Health Organization on Thursday stressed that the risk to the general public is "low" even though the Andean ​strain of hantavirus — found in several people who were on board a stricken cruise ship — can in rare cases be transmitted among humans.



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