Health officials monitoring growing number of people for hantavirus

The CDC is working with state and local health officials to monitor a growing number of people for hantavirus.

• May 15

Head of WHO says global leaders should prepare for more hantavirus cases

The World Health Organization has confirmed 11 cases of the Andes strain of the virus linked to the MV Hondius, a Dutch cruise ship.

• May 12

Hantavirus patients being monitored at 2 facilities in United States

Eighteen Americans who were on board a cruise ship are being monitored as health officials attempt to ease concerns about hantavirus.

• May 12

Holden man recalls time in quarantine unit now used for hantavirus

Ebola survivor Dr. Rick Sacra spent three weeks in Nebraska's National Biocontainment Unit, which is now treating a hantavirus patient.

• May 12

2 New Hampshire residents were on hantavirus cruise ship

Two New Hampshire residents who were on board the cruise ship that saw a hantavirus outbreak​ are back in the United States.

• May 11

U.S. citizens from hantavirus-affected cruise ship in quarantine

Health officials say more than a dozen U.S. citizens from the hantavirus-affected cruise ship were admitted to the University of Nebraska Medical Center quarantine unit.

• May 11

18 Americans from Hantavirus-stricken cruise ship return to U.S.

At least two Americans are from New Hampshire, but health officials say they are currently not in the state.

• May 11

1 American from hantavirus cruise ship tests positive as passengers return to U.S. for quarantine

The Americans on the cruise ship at the center of the hantavirus outbreak will be quarantined in Nebraska. So far one U.S. passenger has tested positive and another is showing symptoms.

• May 11

Boston doctor says hantavirus not likely to cause pandemic

Tufts Medical Center Dr. Zoe Weiss treated a patient with hantavirus and says there is an extremely low risk for a pandemic. WBZ-TV’s Samantha Chaney reports.

• May 8

Canary Islands residents not happy about arrival of hantavirus cruise ship

Residents on Spain's Canary Islands are not thrilled about the arrival of the cruise ship at the center of the hantavirus outbreak.

• May 8

Cruise ship at center of hantavirus outbreak approaching Spain's Canary Islands

The people who have already left the boat at the center of the hantavirus outbreak are being tracked by contact tracers.

• May 8

Cruise ship passengers being monitored for hantavirus across 12 countries, 5 U.S. states

Several former cruise ship passengers are being monitored for hantavirus across 12 countries and 5 U.S. states.

• May 7

Doctors say hantavirus risk to public remains low as passengers continue to be monitored in 3 states

Doctors said the risk of hantavirus to the general public remains low as health officials in three states continue to monitor passenger who returned home from the ship.

• May 7

Latest developments on cruise ship dealing with hantavirus outbreak

Three cruise passengers suspected of having hantavirus were removed from a cruise ship by health officials.

• May 6

3 suspected hantavirus patients evacuated from cruise ship

Three patients with suspected hantavirus infections have been evacuated from a cruise ship to the Netherlands.

• May 6