Despite concerns surrounding the outbreak, health officials continue emphasizing that hantavirus remains uncommon and difficult to spread compared to COVID-19.

Concerns around the hantavirus outbreak linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship have raised comparisons with COVID 19. Here's what WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and infectious disease experts say about the key differences.

People are spiraling into health anxiety amid the hantavirus outbreak. Experts explain why, and share tips on how to cope.

This week marks five years since March 13, 2020, the day President Donald Trump declared a national state of emergency over the novel coronavirus outbreak. By that date, only 57 Americans had died of COVID-19 and 1,645 had been diagnosed with the virus.

Since the first sign of an outbreak, the reminders have come from government officials, health agencies and plenty of experts: There’s no reason to worry. Don’t panic. It’s under control.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of millions of taxpayers who were penalized by the IRS during the coronavirus pandemic for failing to pay their taxes or filing late may qualify for a refund or termination of the penalties they incurred during that period.

The recent coverage of a cruise ship hit with a deadly hantavirus outbreak is painfully familiar to cruisers who spent days and weeks trapped in their cabins at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2