The virus is typically associated with rodents, but it may have passed from human to human aboard the vessel, according to WHO. Since April 11, three people from the ship have died, while a handful of others are sick.

The outbreak was first reported to WHO on May 2 and remains a low risk to the general public, the organization says. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has classified its hantavirus response as level 3, the agency’s lowest level of emergency, according to a person involved in the situation.

The total number of confirmed cases associated with the outbreak is increasing, health officials said. To date, three people who were aboard the ship are known to have died of the virus.

More than 100 passengers remain on the ship, and the World Health Organization is monitoring their health. Officials said that the "overall public health risk remains low" but that there may be some person-to-person spread.

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There has been a new virus outbreak that happened on a cruise ship. The World Health Organization confirmed that there were 5 infections of the virus. The virus is typically associated with rodents, but it passed from human to human on the ship. Since this occured, 3 people have died and many others are sick.

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Passengers and their close contacts are at risk of hantavirus and need to follow public health guidance, but the danger for most people is near zero, officials and scientists say. Experts expect more cases in this outbreak to be identified, but they are emphatic that a hantavirus pandemic is highly unlikely.

“This is not Covid, this is not influenza. It spreads very, very differently,” Maria Van Kerkhove, director of epidemic and pandemic management at the World Health Organization (WHO), said at a briefing on Thursday. “This is not the same situation we were in six years ago … It’s very different.”

CDC will meet Americans on Hantavirus ship at Nebraska quarantine unit. The CDC is dispatching staff to meet the ship in the Canary Islands. They plan to escort the american passengers back to the US abourad a charter flight. Another team has been dispatched to meet the passenger in Nebraska. Passengers are expected to be placed into quarantine as part of an effort to ensure that the virus done not spread