A DUTCH air hostess has been hospitalised after coming into contact with a rat virus cruise passenger as infections rise to ...

THE race is on to contain the rat bug that infected a cruise ship and killed three as the virus spreads across the world.

Argentina is consistently ranked by the WHO as having the highest incidence of the rare, rodent-borne disease in Latin ...

Hantaviruses are groups of viruses – microscopic organisms that infect hosts – transmitted by mice and rats. They can cause ...

Hantavirus is primarily spread by rodents through exposure to their urine, droppings or saliva and less commonly through a ...

A critical vulnerability in the popular Node.js sandboxing library vm2 allows escaping the sandbox and executing arbitrary ...

A plane believed to be carrying a passenger from a cruise ship struck by the deadly hantavirus landed in the Netherlands on ...

The public health risk for hantavirus in the rest of the world remains low, the World Health Organization said.

"I cannot allow [the boat] to enter the Canaries," says Fernando Clavijo - he is seeking an urgent meeting with the Spanish government in Madrid.

Three people have died on a cruise ship in the Atlantic, reportedly from hantavirus. The disease has been confirmed in ...

Two cases of the virus, which rarely spreads between humans, have been confirmed on the ship, and three people have died.

Almost 150 people remained on the cruise ship after the deaths of three passengers. The risk to the public is low, World ...