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HANTAVIRUS

Health minister Kenichiro Ueno speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Monday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
May 19, 2026
Japan supplies antiviral drug to U.K. in response to hantavirus
The U.K. Health Security Agency accepted delivery of the drug, which remains experimental for use to treat hantavirus.
The cruise ship MV Hondius, affected by a hantavirus outbreak, leaves the port of Granadilla de Abona, in Tenerife, Spain, on May 11.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 18, 2026
Hantavirus-hit cruise ship set to end its voyage in Rotterdam
Late on Sunday, the World Health Organization said it was maintaining its assessment of the hantavirus outbreak as ¡°low risk.¡±
Passengers on a third evacuation flight from Tenerife arrive at Eindhoven Air Base in Eindhoven, Netherlands, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
May 13, 2026
Uncertainty over hantavirus spread complicates global response to cruise ship outbreak
While some repatriated passengers are being placed in biocontainment units, such as in France, passengers in the Netherlands are being asked to self-isolate for six weeks.
A passenger from the cruise ship MV Hondius, which was hit by a hantavirus outbreak, is instructed by personnel after disembarking a boat at the port of Granadilla de Abona, in Tenerife, Spain, on May 10.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 12, 2026
Experts explain why hantavirus outbreak won¡¯t spark a pandemic like COVID
A deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship has revived bitter memories of the emergence of COVID-19, but health experts say the two viruses are very different.
A person boards a plane flying to the Netherlands, which is transporting passengers from the cruise ship MV Hondius, which was affected by a hantavirus outbreak, at Tenerife Sur airport, Canary Islands, Spain, on Monday.
WORLD
May 12, 2026
Hantavirus-hit ship sets sail for Netherlands as final passengers evacuated in Tenerife
Three people ¡ª a Dutch couple and a German national ¡ª have died since the start of the outbreak on the ship of the virus.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
May 11, 2026
Japan does not expect immediate impact from hantavirus
¡°We will make every effort to take necessary infection control measures while monitoring the situation,¡± the top government spokesman said at a news conference.
The cruise ship MV Hondius, affected by a hantavirus outbreak, arrives at the port of Granadilla de Abona, in Tenerife, Spain, on Sunday.
JAPAN
May 11, 2026
Japanese national from hantavirus-hit ship arrives in Britain
Based on recommendations from the World Health Organization, the person will undergo health monitoring by British health authorities for up to 45 days.
A British citizen boards a plane bound for the U.K. carrying passengers evacuated from the Dutch-flagged hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius at Tenerife Sur-Reina Sofia airport in Spain's Canary Islands on Sunday.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 11, 2026
Evacuation of passengers from virus-hit cruise ship to be completed on Monday
Eight people no longer on the ship have fallen ill, according to a World Health Organization ?tally from Friday, of whom six are confirmed to have contracted the virus.
There are no approved vaccines or known cures for the hantavirus, which is usually spread from infected rodents and can cause respiratory and cardiac distress as well as hemorrhagic fever.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 9, 2026
Hantavirus scare revives COVID-era conspiracy theories
The misinformation resurged even as the World Health Organization insisted there was minimal risk to the general public from passengers of the MV Hondius.
A deadly suspected hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius en route from Argentina to the African island of Cape Verde is under investigation, though experts say wider spread is unlikely.
COMMENTARY / World
May 8, 2026
The hantavirus outbreak is cause for caution, not panic
Hantaviruses are spread by mice, rats and other rodents. Human infections, which occur when people come in contact with droppings or urine, are relatively uncommon.
Hantavirus is a rare infection typically spread through contact with infected rodent droppings or inhaling contaminated dust. Symptoms can take weeks to appear, and severe cases can progress rapidly to respiratory failure.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 8, 2026
Health officials downplay pandemic risk from cruise hantavirus outbreak
Hantavirus is less transmissible than the coronavirus and doctors say it¡¯s also less adept at mutating.
A scientist from the Malbran Institute handles containers used to diagnose the Andes hantavirus, which contain RNA from the Andes virus as part of the detection process, in Buenos Aires on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
May 7, 2026
Risk of hantavirus transmitting between humans is low, health ministry says
The virus has infected several passengers, killing three, who were aboard a Dutch cruise ship.
Fernando Clavijo, president of the Canary Islands, speaks to the media about the deadly hantavirus outbreak on board luxury cruise ship MV Hondius, which is set to dock at the Canary Island of Tenerife, outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 7, 2026
In Canary Islands, nearing hantavirus cruise ship rekindles pandemic concerns
The MV Hondius, carrying 150 people, is expected to reach Tenerife on Saturday, where it will dock despite protests from the local government.
A convoy of ambulances believed to be carrying at least one of the passengers from the cruise ship MV Hondius believed to be infected with hantavirus is escorted by Dutch police on motorcycles as it arrives near Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden, Netherlands, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 7, 2026
Hantavirus ship passenger: ¡®They didn¡¯t take it seriously enough¡¯
The Turkish travel vlogger, who has since disembarked, said life on board the vessel carried on as usual even after the first death was announced.
A person in a hazmat suit is escorted to an ambulance from a medical aircraft allegedly carrying some of the passengers from the cruise ship MV Hondius believed to be infected with the hantavirus, at Schiphol airport near Amsterdam on Wednesday.
WORLD
May 7, 2026
Countries scramble to track passengers of virus-hit cruise ship
Three people have died in the outbreak on the luxury cruise ship, and a total of eight people are suspected to have contracted the virus.
An ambulance boat approaches the cruise ship Hondius off the port of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, on Tuesday.
WORLD
May 6, 2026
Hantavirus-hit cruise ship to sail to Spain after rare Andes strain confirmed
South Africa confirmed that it identified among the victims a strain of the virus that can ¡ª in rare cases ¡ª spread among humans.
Cruise ship MV Hondius is seen docked off the port of Cape Verde on Monday. Passengers have not been allowed off the ship as health authorities investigate suspected cases of hantavirus aboard the vessel following the deaths of three people.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 5, 2026
How an ocean cruise turned into a hantavirus nightmare
About 150 people remain stuck ?on the ship marooned off the Cape Verde islands in the Atlantic Ocean after the deaths of three passengers.
The cruise ship MV Hondius anchored off the port of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, on Monday
JAPAN
May 5, 2026
One Japanese aboard cruise ship hit by hantavirus outbreak
Three people have died amid the outbreak of the virus onboard the ship, which was transporting 150 passengers and crew.
The cruise ship MV Hondius floats off the port of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, on Sunday.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 4, 2026
What is the hantavirus that killed three cruise ship passengers?
Three people have died and three are ill after a Netherlands-based ?cruise ship was hit by a suspected outbreak of hantavirus.
The cruise ship MV Hondius is stationary off the port of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, on Sunday.
WORLD
May 4, 2026
Hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship leaves three dead, WHO says
Hantavirus is a rare but potentially deadly infection that typically spreads to humans through contact with infected rodents, with person-to-person transmission uncommon.
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The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
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Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.
Â鶹´«Ã½ brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process ¡ª it's an ingredient.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.

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