Cruise ship with hantavirus may have seen a rare occurrence: humans infecting humans

The bank vole is one of the rodents that can transmit the hantavirus. In rare cases, there is human-to-human transmission.

Hantavirus is typically spread through contact with rodent feces, urine or saliva. But cases on the MV Hondius cruise ship point to an unusual means of transmission.

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