In April 2026, a passenger boarded a Dutch cruise ship in Ushuaia, Argentina after a bird-watching trip. Ten days later, he died. The cause of his death, while initially unclear, was determined to be ...

For many people, news of a virus outbreak on a cruise ship immediately brings back memories of COVID spreading when the Ruby Princess docked in Sydney in March 2020. Of the passengers and crew who ...

The strain of hantavirus that has killed three people and sickened five others on a cruise ship is the Andes strain. Here's what to know.

Laboratory tests have implicated the Andes virus, a specific type of hantavirus, in the cluster of illnesses on the cruise ship MV Hondius.

The Andes hantavirus is a rare but highly dangerous rodent-borne virus found primarily in South America. Unlike most ...

It’s been assumed that the virus is contagious only if someone is in close contact with someone who’s having symptoms.

In 2018, health authorities in southern Argentina were scrambling, trying to understand what had caused nearly three dozen people in the tiny village of Epuyen to fall gravely ill. By the end of the ...