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People offload a shipment of more than 15 tons of supplies donated by UNICEF as part of the response to the Ebola virus outbreak at Bunia National Airport in Bunia, Congo, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Risk of Ebola spread is high regionally but low globally, WHO says

By Justin Kabumba and Monika Pronczuk - Associated Press

Aid workers carry supplies to set up an Ebola treatment center in Bunia, Congo, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Dirole Lotsima Dieudonne)

Ebola outbreak’s scale, speed have WHO officials worried as Congo announces 134 deaths

By Justin Kabumba and Jean-Yves Kamale - Associated Press

A woman wearing a protective mask stands in the corridor of a hospital in Bunia, Congo, Sunday, May 17, 2026. (AP Photo/ Dirole Lotsima Dieudonne)

Congo reports sharp rise in Ebola cases as WHO worries about outbreak’s scale and speed

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People wait near an ambulance at a hospital in Bunia, Congo, Sunday, May 17, 2026. (AP Photo/ Dirole Lotsima Dieudonne)

Congo will open 3 Ebola treatment centers as a rare strain spreads in Ituri

By Monika Pronczuk and Wilson McMakin - Associated Press

The MV Hondius cruise ship is anchored at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, May 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Arilson Almeida, File)

Canadian national health agency confirms 1 positive hantavirus test

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A health official uses a thermometer to screen people in front of Kibuli Muslim Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, Saturday, May 16, 2026. (AP Photo/ Hajarah Nalwadda)

WHO declares global health emergency over Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

The hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius is seen at anchor at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Arturo Rodriguez)

Spain reports new hantavirus case in passenger from cruise ship as confirmed infections grow to 9

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

The MV Hondius cruise ship is anchored at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

What to know about hantavirus, the illness linked to a cruise ship outbreak

By Susan Montoya Bryan - Associated Press

Passengers are sprayed with disinfectant by Spanish government officials before boarding a plane after disembarking from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius at Tenerife airport in the Canary Islands, Spain, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Arturo Rodriguez)

2 more passengers evacuated from cruise ship test positive for hantavirus

By Josh Funk and Mike Corder - Associated Press

A Spanish Civil Guard officer inspects the area where passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship are expected to arrive at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Experts wonder ‘Where is the CDC?’ as a hantavirus outbreak unfolds on a cruise ship

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

A passenger on the the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, MV Hondius, takes a photo of the ship's weighing anchor in Praia, during the voyage to Spain's port of Tenerife, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo)

WHO reassuring Spanish island residents ahead of arrival of hantavirus cruise ship to Tenerife

By Iain Sullivan and Elea Becatoros - Associated Press

The MV Hondius cruise ship departs the port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

‘Not the next COVID’: WHO official moves to calm fears over deadly cruise ship outbreak

Health workers in protective gear evacuate patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship into an ambulance at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

KLM flight attendant hospitalized with suspected hantavirus

By The Washington Times AI News Desk

Health workers in protective gear arrive to evacuate patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

3 patients are being evacuated to Europe from cruise ship with hantavirus outbreak

By Annie Risemberg, Misper Apawu, Jamey Keaten and Isabel Debre - Associated Press

The rural family home where Rodrigo Morinigo, who died from hantavirus in January at the age of 14, lived with his family when he contracted the illness in San Andres de Giles, Argentina, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Hantavirus is on the rise in Argentina, where a stricken cruise ship began its journey

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Health workers in protective gear arrive to evacuate patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

3 patients are being evacuated to Europe from cruise ship with hantavirus outbreak

By Annie Risemberg and Misper Apawu - Associated Press

Health workers get off the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius, a cruise ship carrying nearly 150 people as it remains off Cape Verde on Monday, May 4, 2026 after three passengers died and several others fell seriously ill in a suspected hantavirus outbreak. (Qasem Elhato via AP)

Inside the cruise ship at the center of the hantavirus outbreak

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FILE - A woman works at her shop in Epuyen, Argentina, Friday, Jan. 11, 2019, after an outbreak of hantavirus. (AP Photo/Gustavo Zaninelli, File)

What to know about hantavirus, the illness suspected in a cruise ship outbreak

By Susan Montoya Bryan - Associated Press

The World Health Organization signage is seen outside its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, April 15, 2020. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

A suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean kills 3 people, WHO says

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

FILE - A health worker shows a bottle of the malaria vaccine R21/Matrix-M before administering it to a child at the comprehensive Health Centre in Agudama-Epie, in Yenagoa, Nigeria, on Dec. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

WHO says vaccinations save millions in Africa, but U.S. aid cuts and Iran war threaten progress

By Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press