The latest developments come after passengers and some crew members were evacuated from the vessel in the Canary Islands.

Several research groups and pharmaceutical companies had already been studying hantaviruses before the MV Hondius outbreak brought the disease into global headlines.

Two Maryland residents are being monitored for potential hantavirus exposure, according to the Maryland Department of Health.

An unusual hantavirus outbreak at sea is drawing global focus to a rare rodent-borne disease capable of causing severe lung or kidney failure.

Hantavirus has been making headlines after an outbreak linked to a cruise ship was associated with at least three deaths. It's been confirmed that Andes virus-- a type of hantavirus that causes cardiopulmonary syndrome and is capable of human-to-human transmission -- is responsible.

At least six passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship have tested positive for the Andes strain of hantavirus.

A doctor who saved a patient in the 2012 Yosemite hantavirus outbreak shares what he learned from the experience in light of the cases on the Hondius cruise ship.

Health officials confirmed one American has tested positive for the virus while asymptomatic, while another is showing symptoms.