Cruise ship hantavirus outbreak kills three; experts warn of rare but deadly disease

Three people have died from the suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship, with additional cases reported among passengers and crew.

Somewhere in the Atlantic, a cruise ship has become an unlikely stage for one of medicine's most humbling encounters — a virus that has stalked the American Southwest for decades, kills nearly four in ten it infects, and still refuses to yield its secrets. Three people are dead, others remain ill, and health authorities are working to understand how hantavirus, a disease tied to rodent contact in remote rural landscapes, found its way aboard a vessel at sea. The outbreak is a reminder that rare does not mean distant, and that the boundaries we draw around danger are often more wishful than rea

Cruise ship hantavirus outbreak kills three; experts warn of rare but deadly disease

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