A deadly outbreak on a cruise liner is just the latest in a long history of infectious diseases spreading rapidly in the cramped confines of ships, from the Black Death to COVID.
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Eight people infected in the hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship have tested positive for the Andes virus, the only strain transmitted between humans, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
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French authorities on Wednesday allowed asymptomatic passengers to leave a British cruise ship, saying a gastrointestinal virus was behind an outbreak of sickness that came after an elderly man died of a heart attack.
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US health officials said Wednesday a patient who had exhibited mild hantavirus symptoms has tested negative for the illness and was no longer in a biocontainment unit.
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An oncologist traveling on the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak has been cleared to leave a special biocontainment unit in Nebraska, where he was the lone American placed in isolation after he helped care ...
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A new review published in the journal Addiction confirms drinking causes substantial harm to health. Some of those harms may be reversible if the person reduces or stops drinking.
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A recent study shows that the rapid increase of new nicotine products and the influence of the tobacco industry are perceived to significantly hinder the European countries' ability to achieve ambitious tobacco control goals. ...
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Broken or disrupted circuits in the brain contribute to many neurological disorders. A new custom-built biological "wire" developed at Duke University School of Medicine points the way toward a new treatment approach—bypassing ...
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A study by Professor Carlos Matute of the EHU reinforces a paradigm shift in neuroscience: Myelin goes from being a structural element to being an active component of brain function. Published in Trends in Molecular Medicine, ...
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An epigenetic mechanism by which tumors manage to hide from the body's immune defenses has just been described by an international scientific team led by the University of Liège and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. These ...
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