The World Health Organization confirmed a significant surge in Ebola virus disease cases within the Democratic Republic of the Congo this week. Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom … Read more
The World Health Organization officially declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern on … Read more
In the global effort to manage infectious disease, few threats command as much sustained attention from the international medical community as the Ebola virus. As a … Read more
The World Health Organization is escalating its response to a widening health crisis as the agency’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, expressed grave alarm regarding the scale … Read more
Recent claims circulating on social media suggesting that the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of a hantavirus “spreading particularly fast across the world” are entirely … Read more
The Irish government has ordered the comprehensive sanitization of a state aircraft following the repatriation of two women who contracted hantavirus during a cruise. The decision … Read more
Spain’s health ministry has confirmed a new case of hantavirus in a passenger evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship, bringing the total number of confirmed … Read more
As the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius approached the coast of Tenerife this morning, the atmosphere on the shores of the Canary Islands was a volatile mix of … Read more
India’s Union Health Ministry has activated precautionary surveillance measures following reports of hantavirus infections aboard the MV Hondius, an expedition cruise vessel. The move comes as … Read more
The MV Hondius, a cruise ship caught in the center of a rare and serious hantavirus outbreak, is scheduled to dock in Tenerife early Sunday morning. … Read more
The evacuation of the MV Hondius, a cruise ship currently stalled by a deadly hantavirus outbreak, has entered its most critical phase. World Health Organization Director-General … Read more
A 32-year-old woman in the southeastern Spanish province of Alicante is being tested for hantavirus after showing symptoms consistent with the disease, Spanish health authorities announced … Read more