Health officials across the United States and around the world are monitoring a rare but deadly outbreak of hantavirus after multiple confirmed cases were linked to a luxury cruise ship, including possible patients who weren't ever on the ship.

Eighteen Americans who were aboard the cruise ship at the center of the deadly hantavirus outbreak are being monitored at health facilities in the United States on Tuesday. One pa

The federal hantavirus response has laid bare the impact of the Trump administration’s cuts to U.S. and global health, renewing concerns among public health experts that the U.S. is not prepared for a bigger health crisis.

The hantavirus outbreak has resulted in three deaths so far

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.

Nations around the world on Monday repatriated passengers from a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak and quarantined or isolated them, including a French woman and an American who tested positive.

A federal official in the spotlight for helping lead the United States’ ongoing hantavirus response is also getting attention for his resume as a urologist. Adm. Brian Christine, an assistant health secretary and head of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps,

Dozens of people, including 18 people in the United States, are being monitored in medical facilities for hantavirus tied to the deadly outbreak on board the cruise ship MV Hondius. But so far, there are no known cases in the U.