The World Health Organization has declared that an outbreak of Ebola in Central Africa is a public health emergency. Health ...

The hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship remains of low risk to the general public as 18 passengers from the vessel arrived at specialized US facilities in Nebraska and Georgia on ...

The virus circulated undetected for weeks. Heavy population movement in the area could make it spread farther.

The virus's long incubation period is making it difficult for investigators to pinpoint where the infection occurred.

A map of hantavirus in the US shows 16 states where people exposed are monitored. One former cruise ship passenger tested positive. Another is showing symptoms.

The WHO director-general warned there could be more hantavirus cases identified in the "coming weeks." ...

Passengers and close contacts, some with symptoms, are being monitored until not contagious: From Santa Clara, California, to Nebraska, to Emory University in Atlanta.

Cases span more than a dozen states, with people getting sick from a strain of the bacterium that is showing resistance to a number of antibiotics. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ...

Officials in several U.S. states are monitoring possible hantavirus exposures. See the map here.

The World Health Organization declared an international health emergency on Sunday over an outbreak of an Ebola strain in the ...