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Experimental hantavirus drug ships to Europe as US passengers offered home quarantine
3+ hour, 2+ min ago (641+ words) Emergency shipments of the experimental antiviral drug favipiravir are on their way to France, the Netherlands, and Spain to treat hantavirus patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship or run clinical trials, the European Commission (EC) announced yesterday in a…...
Sexually transmitted infections are reaching record highs in Europe
1+ week, 1+ day ago (825+ words) Md Zakir Mahmud / i Stock New data show Europe is experiencing an explosion of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The data presented in a series of new epidemiologic surveillance reports…...
Hantavirus outbreak reduced to 10 cases as ship passengers return to home countries
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (1271+ words) The World Health Organization (WHO) today reduced the number of reported hantavirus cases from the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius from 11 to 10." WHO officials said at a press briefing this morning that the 11 cases reported in a disease outbreak update…...
Hantavirus outbreak grows to 11 cases, 9 confirmed
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1211+ words) A Spanish passenger on the MV Hondius cruise ship who was in quarantine at a military hospital in Madrid is now confirmed to have hantavirus, raising the outbreak total to 11 cases, nine of which have been lab-confirmed. The death toll…...
More hantavirus cases emerge as passengers debark cruise ship
2+ week, 4+ day ago (535+ words) Oceanwide Expedition / Wikimedia Commons Yesterday, passengers on the MV Hondius Dutch cruise ship left a port in Spain and returned to their home countries, where national teams will isolate and monitor them in the coming days for signs of hantavirus,…...
Cruise ship at center of hantavirus outbreak to dock in Spain Sunday
3+ week, 1+ hour ago (587+ words) Spain is preparing to receive more than 140 passengers and crew members from a cruise ship on which at least eight people became ill and three died due to hantavirus. The Dutch-flagged vessel, the MV Hondius, was sailing from Argentina to…...
WHO officials on hantavirus cases: "This is an outbreak on a ship, not another COVID-19
3+ week, 1+ day ago (579+ words) Today during a press conference on the hantavirus outbreak linked to travelers on a Dutch cruise ship, World Health Organization (WHO) officials repeatedly assured reporters that, though serious, the current situation is not "another SARS-Co V-2." "This is not COVID. This…...
Berlin sees rapid rise in locally acquired mpox clade 1b cases
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (892+ words) A rapidly expanding cluster of mpox caused by clade 1b virus has been identified among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Berlin, Germany, according to a rapid'communication published last week in Eurosurveillance. Of the 35 identified cases from December 2025 to…...