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.

Symptoms of the virus can take from two to eight weeks to develop and it’s possible more of the nearly 150 passengers aboard the cruise ship could be infected, experts say.

Transmission of hepatitis A can occur when someone consumes food or water containing the hepatitis A virus. Someone with a hepatitis A infection can also transmit the virus through close physical ...

But how is it spread from human to human? Dr. Kumar says it is very important to understand, it is only spread through very close contact.

There have been no transmissions among humans documented in other kinds of hantavirus, including those found in Europe and Asia. Humans can become infected with hantavirus through contact with ...

Of the passengers and crew who disembarked, 575 had COVID. The virus then spread to the community. So it’s understandable people are concerned that passengers from the MV Hondius need to be ...

Are we staring at a pandemic-like situation in near future? Expert tells everything about the virus and ways to keep oneself protected from it.

In a 2020 study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers analyzed clinical and sociodemographic data linked to a significant outbreak of Andes virus (ANDV) hantavirus pulmonary ...

Researchers discovered hantavirus can remain in human semen for nearly six years, raising concerns about potential sexual ...

Experimental infection studies in lactating Holstein cows showed that H5N1 B3.13 can infect the bovine mammary gland at doses ...

The horrors of Covid-19 pandemic are still fresh in our minds, even though a few years have passed ever since. One lesson which the world has learnt from the 2020-2021 pandemic is that precaution is ...