Experts have been quick to reassure the public after the deaths aboard the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius, but images and turns of phrase have rekindled anxieties from Covid’s early days.

WHO reported eight hantavirus cases, including three deaths, assessing the public health risk as low. Countries are tracking disembarked passengers from MV Hondius cruise to prevent further spread amid concerns as three passengers died from the virus.

The hantavirus outbreak has got the world worried. With five confirmed cases on board the MV Hondius, people are drawing comparisons to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. But the two infections are very different.

Concern about hantavirus makes sense, but evidence so far suggests that most people have very little to worry about.

The sight of people in hazmat suits and phrases like ‘self-isolation’ dominating the airwaves is bringing back troubling memories for Katie Rosseinsky, who looks into whether we should all start stock

A hantavirus outbreak aboard a luxury cruise ship that has left three people dead is veering into the fringe. Online, a growing number of social media users are floating ivermectin as a possible treatment for the rare infectious disease,