https://trackingemergingviruses.com/2026/05/13/a-man-goes-to-a-birthday-party-sits-next-to-someone-with-hantavirus-catches-it-gives-it-to-his-wife-and-dies-his-wife-then-infects-10-more-people-at-his-wake-another-guest-at-that-same/ 2026-05-14T03:19:30Z Tracking Emerging Public Health Challenges. en “A man goes to a birthday party, sits next to someone with hantavirus, catches it, gives it to his wife, and dies. His wife then infects 10 more people at his wake. Another guest at that same birthday party has no interaction with the index patient except to say “hello” as they cross paths, but that person gets sick too.One index patient, 33 subsequent infections, 11 deaths, four waves of transmission." 2026-05-14T03:18:47Z Blog https://trackingemergingviruses.com/2026/05/13/theres-no-question-that-another-pandemic-will-strike-but-no-one-knows-when-or-which-virus-will-be-the-cause-what-we-can-determine-with-pretty-good-clarity-is-how-ready-wel/ 2026-05-13T13:04:55Z Tracking Emerging Public Health Challenges. en “There’s no question that another pandemic will strike, but no one knows when or which virus will be the cause. What we can determine with pretty good clarity is how ready we’ll be, how well we’re constructing obstacles to slow the path of emerging threats and how fast we’re learning lessons from painful experience.” 2026-05-13T13:03:27Z Blog https://trackingemergingviruses.com/2026/05/12/close-to-150-passengers-and-crew-members-on-the-cruise-ship-mv-hondius-struck-by-an-outbreak-of-a-deadly-hantavirus-have-disembarked-and-are-returning-to-their-home-countries-where-they-will/ 2026-05-13T02:11:50Z Tracking Emerging Public Health Challenges. en “Close to 150 passengers and crew members on the cruise ship MV Hondius struck by an outbreak of a deadly hantavirus have disembarked and are returning to their home countries, where they will quarantine. The way that will happen, however, will differ between countries, in part because outbreaks of the virus are rare and how it spreads between people isn’t well understood." 2026-05-13T02:11:01Z Blog https://trackingemergingviruses.com/2026/05/12/hantavirus-in-april-2025-cbs-news-reported-that-all-full-time-employees-working-for-the-cdcs-vessel-sanitation-program-vsp-had-been-fired-leaving-a-smaller-group-of-12-u-s-public-healt/ 2026-05-13T02:13:57Z Tracking Emerging Public Health Challenges. en HANTAVIRUS “In April 2025, CBS News reported that all full-time employees working for the CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP) had been fired, leaving a smaller group of 12 U.S. Public Health Service officers. 2026-05-12T15:31:43Z Blog