Maria Van Kerkhove

Meanwhile, controversy has erupted over a possible pathogen exposure at a Russian research institute studying plague (Black Death) after a researcher in her 20s died following severe pneumonia symptoms

U.S. Escalates Pressure on Russia Over Siberia Lab Death

The World Health Organization has asked Russia for more information on the death of a worker at a Siberian plague research laboratory

Questions are mounting over a suspected pneumonic plague death at a Russian research facility as Moscow offers few clear details

The deadliest Ebola outbreak on record in the Democratic Republic of Congo may have begun months before it was declared in May

Some 18 Americans had been placed under quarantine at a Nebraska medical center upon returning from a Dutch cruise ship last month and seven Americans monitored symptoms at home

That’s exactly why the U.S. believes the world needs to clamp down on travel from the region and has taken its own steps to bar travelers from entering the country

The Britons, who were evacuated on Monday (May 11) from the ill-fated vessel at the centre of an international healthcare scandal, have been required to undertake a 42-day isolation period upon returning to the UK, beginning with a 72-hour stay at Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral

The two passengers suspected of being infected will be taken to another undisclosed RESPTC, where they will also undergo further testing for the virus

Two Irish people who had been on board the MV Hondius hit by hantavirus returned home on Sunday on an Air Corps plane that landed at Baldonnel military airbase in Dublin just after 9pm

So when passengers began falling ill in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, doctors and public health experts were limited in what they could offer

Spanish authorities on Friday were preparing to receive more than 140 passengers and crew members on board a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands, where health officials have said they will perform careful evacuations

On March 27 they visited a landfill site four miles outside the city of Ushuaia

Spain tests suspected hantavirus case in Alicante

Health Officials Downplay Pandemic Risk From Cruise Hantavirus Outbreak

Warming temperatures push hantavirus into new regions as cases double

The vessel, carrying nearly 150 people on board, has triggered growing international concern after health authorities confirmed infections involving the Andes strain of hantavirus-a rare but potentially dangerous virus primarily found in parts of South America

A suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship has claimed three lives and seven others ill