A severe chest infection soon spiralled into a life-threatening medical emergency, pushing a 60-year-old woman to the brink ...

Objectives Prescribing antibiotics may reinforce patients’ beliefs that antibiotics are needed and increase future consultations for similar symptoms. This review determines the effect of antibiotic ...

Some research supports using the antiviral drug ribavirin to treat other types of hantavirus infections that can cause kidney failure, but that’s not the kind found aboard the cruise ship. Ribavirin ...

European health agencies are monitoring passengers and crew members after suspected hantavirus exposure raised concerns about ...

pDepartment of Respiratory Medicine and Allergy and Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden qDivision of Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Department of ...

Traws Pharma is responding to the threat of Hantavirus, a rodent-borne negative-strand RNA virus that typically results in a 30-50% fatality rate when transmitted to humans and which has been ...

Avian influenza can jump species from birds to humans, a fact that arouses concern for serious illness and broader human ...

A suspected hantavirus cluster aboard a cruise ship has raised concerns about the rare, rodent-borne disease. Eight cases are ...

If successful, research could lead to a medication that could treat exposed patients and those who can’t be vaccinated.

The strain of hantavirus that has killed three people and sickened five others on a cruise ship is the Andes strain, which is ...

As of Thursday, at least six Americans from the hantavirus-infected cruise ship had returned home to four states.

Several types of hantaviruses can impact humans and animals differently. In the case of humans, hantavirus infections can ...