Pandemic

The recent coverage of a cruise ship hit with a deadly hantavirus outbreak is painfully familiar to cruisers who spent days and weeks trapped in their cabins at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Three passengers from the MV Hondius have died, two of whom had confirmed cases…

AS DAILY NEWS emerges of a virus causing a quarantine on the high seas, many people have sought to explain the ongoing hantavirus breakout through a lens they are more familiar with: the Covid pandemic. But trying to understand hantavirus – an older, rarer and far more fatal disease –…

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Hantavirus is not Covid-19. It is not easily spread; in fact, it's unusual for the disease to spread from person to person. This is according to Professor Lucille Blumberg, an infectious disease expert and former Deputy Director at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD). "This is not Covid. This…

Are people still firing up “My Octopus Teacher” on Netflix? The viral success of that documentary felt like a peak-pandemic phenomenon, when some of us were sufficiently starved for connection with both the natural world and our fellow humans that its thin anthropomorphic musings rang true. If it has a…

A World Health Organization (WHO) official on Thursday said that the threat level imposed by hantavirus, which has killed three people aboard a cruise ship, does not resemble the pandemic-level threat that COVID-19 had six years ago. Infectious disease epidemiologist Maria DeJoseph Van Kerkhove said during a press conference that…

The pastor of a California church that led a mass baptism event at historic Pirate's Cove over the weekend says society is in the midst of a spiritual awakening, fueled by a search for meaning and purpose that emerged from the isolation of the COVID pandemic. Pastor Mark Francey of…

WHO reassures public as countries trace MV Hondius passengers and confirm limited human transmission Amsterdam/Geneva: An outbreak of hantavirus on board a cruise ship is not the start of a pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, as global health authorities step up efforts to trace passengers and contain…

The outbreak of a deadly virus aboard a cruise ship may sound like a familiar story — but while it's a serious scenario, public health figures aren't anticipating the next global pandemic.The big picture: The hantavirus has left travelers isolating in their rooms, sparked a diplomatic debate about where the…