Passengers from a hantavirus-hit cruise ship have started flying home on planes after the MV Hondius anchored in the Canary Islands.
Staff Writers
Passengers on the cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak are preparing to be screened before disembarking near a port in the the Canary Islands.
Authorities are racing to prevent further spread of the hantavirus from a cruise ship as more suspected cases are reported thousands of kilometres apart.
Jennifer Rigby and Bart H Meijer
Efforts continue to trace passengers of a hantavirus-hit cruise ship and their immediate contacts, while Spain prepares to receive people from the vessel.
Suman Naishadham
The race is on to track down passengers who left a hantavirus-hit cruise ship before it was became stranded in order to stop a deadly outbreak growing further.
Bart H Meijer
The hantavirus strain that's killed three people on a cruise ship can be spread by human contact, but there aren't fears about a wider public outbreak.
Three people have been taken for medical care from a cruise ship at the centre of a deadly hantavirus outbreak as the stranded vessel prepares to head to Spain.
Nellie Peyton and Bart H Meijer
Spain is allowing a cruise ship hit by hantavirus and three deaths to dock in the Canary Islands, as authorities investigate if transmission occurred on board.
Jennifer Rigby and Olivia Le Poidevin and Charlotte Van Campenhout
A cruise ship is marooned in the Atlantic Ocean with seven confirmed or suspected hantavirus cases on board, but authorities say the risk to the public is low.
Doctors shell-shocked from 2025's record-breaking flu season are warning another significant round is on the way if vaccination rates stay low.
Will Nicholas
Jacinda Ardern has defended her government's pandemic record, saying they got "more than most" right on New Zealand's COVID-19 handling.
Ben McKay
An Indian nurse has died after contracting the Nipah virus in December, officials in the state of West Bengal say.
The World Health Organization says there is no evidence of increased human to human transmission of the deadly Nipah virus.
Rishika Sadam
An outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus in India's West Bengal state has sparked concern in parts of Asia.
Rishika Sadam and Jatindra Dash
An Australian study into long COVID offers a step towards improved diagnosis and treatment of hundreds of millions of sufferers worldwide.
Lloyd Jones
The first long-term study on the risks of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccine has found those who were vaccinated had a lower risk of dying from the infectious disease.
The "toxic and chaotic" culture at the centre of the UK's government led to a delayed response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a damning report has found.
The United States' government health agency has adopted COVID-19 recommendations made by a team of advisers picked by Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.
Mike Stobbe
Time-poor parents need practical help to give declining childhood vaccination rates a shot in the arm, research says.
Abe Maddison
Chinese citizen-journalist Zhang Zhan, initially jailed after documenting COVID-19 in Wuhan, has been sentenced to four more years in prison.
Clare Jim, Jessie Pang and Branda Goh
The World Health Organisation says the mpox viral infection no longer represents an international health emergency.
The Democratic Republic of Congo's health ministry says a new Ebola outbreak in the country is suspected of having caused 15 deaths.
The World Health Organisation has warned a major spread of chikungunya virus risks sweeping around the globe.
Olivia Le Poidevin
The World Health Organisation chief says "all hypotheses must remain on the table" into COVID-19's origin after critical information wasn't provided.
