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transmission of the virus from [person to person](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/08/g-s1-121074/hantavirus-contact-tracing) was rare and the risk to the American public remains "extremely low." Hantavirus is typically contracted when humans come into contact with rodent urine
symptoms. A short distance from where the ship docked, authorities had set up white containers along the water. The crew will enter immediate quarantine, with those who cannot be immediately repatriated spending their time
transmission between people was documented for the first time, the WHO said. The WHO is in touch with officials in at least 12 countries who are monitoring citizens that returned home. Those countries include Canada
transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of Hantavirus particles. Hantavirus is a respiratory disease carried in wild rodents such as deer mice. Mice do not appear ill while carrying the hantavirus. People become infected after breathing airborne
transmission is not common, and the WHO reiterated that the risk to the wider public was low, adding that it had been told that “there are no rats on board” the ship. A limited spread
risks, the science and what you need to know](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/08/nx-s1-5811917/hantavirus-andres-mvhondius-ship-rodents) "Even though they were identified as contacts, they are not considered contagious because they currently do not have symptoms," said Dr. Sandra Valenciano
risk contacts." The next step involves public health agencies ordering precautions for those who are infected or who may be infected but aren't showing symptoms yet. Such measures may include quarantine, so that
risk to the general US public as low, “but we will continue to evaluate the evolving situation and may adjust public health measures as additional information becomes available”. The agency further advised that anyone
transmission chains,” Rist told France Inter radio, pointing to the “decree that came out today that will allow us to strengthen isolation measures for contact cases and to protect the population”. Another four French passengers
transmissible, although the mortality rate of many of the Ebola species is much, much higher." Ebola typically spreads between people through contact with bodily fluids: saliva, blood, semen, diarrhea. People with Ebola are not considered