Hantavirus scare a wake-up call: Why India must build its disease X defencesA recent hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship echoes past pandemic scares. Experts warn Disease X, a future unknown pathogen, is a near cer...
24 May, 2026, 11.21 PM IST
How South African scientists identified hantavirus on a cruise ship thousands of miles awayA cruise ship outbreak was identified as hantavirus. South African experts rapidly investigated a passenger evacuated with pneumonia. Initi...
23 May, 2026, 07.23 PM IST
GRSE launches first next-gen offshore patrol vessel for Indian NavyDefence PSU GRSE launched Sanghamitra, the first of four next-generation offshore patrol vessels for the Indian Navy. The vessel is larger ...
20 May, 2026, 10.49 PM IST
Hantavirus-hit liner reaches Rotterdam, crew being quarantined and ship disinfectedThe MV Hondius arrived at Landtong, a narrow peninsula about 10 km long that is part of Rotterdam port and far from any urban centre. Sever...
19 May, 2026, 12.43 AM IST
Hantavirus-hit cruise ship set to reach Rotterdam port as final destinationThe cruise ship MV Hondius, hit by hantavirus, has docked in Rotterdam for disinfection. Remaining crew and medical staff will undergo quar...
18 May, 2026, 08.59 AM IST
In the shadow of COVID, health officials fight panic over Hantavirus outbreakA hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship has sparked public concern. Health officials are working to communicate clearly, drawing lessons fro...
15 May, 2026, 12.01 PM IST
Two LPG carriers cross Strait of Hormuz, set to reach India this weekTwo ships carrying cooking gas for India have successfully navigated the Hormuz Strait. This comes after a recent attack on a dhow, the Haj...
14 May, 2026, 07.36 PM IST
How ‘Norovirus’ has trapped cruise passengers onboard just like HantavirusA British cruise ship, Ambition, faces a gastrointestinal illness outbreak. Over 1,700 passengers and crew are confined to the vessel in Bo...
14 May, 2026, 11.03 AM IST
French hantavirus patient is critically ill, on an artificial lung as total cases grow to 11A French woman is critically ill with hantavirus, requiring an artificial lung, as the cruise ship outbreak reaches 11 cases and three deat...
13 May, 2026, 09.55 AM IST
Two more passengers evacuated from cruise ship test positive for hantavirusPassengers from the ship began flying home aboard military and government planes Sunday after the MV Hondius anchored in the Canary Islands...
12 May, 2026, 06.51 PM IST
Two Americans returning from hantavirus-stricken ship in biocontainment units; one tests positive, another has mild symptomsThe US government is repatriating 17 American citizens from the MV Hondius cruise ship following a deadly Andes hantavirus outbreak. One pa...
11 May, 2026, 11.38 AM IST
Passengers evacuated from hantavirus-stricken cruise ship begin flying home from Canary IslandsPassengers from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius are flying home from Tenerife. They are being evacuated by military and governmen...
11 May, 2026, 06.36 AM IST
Hantavirus-hit cruise ship arrives in Spain's Canary IslandsA cruise ship carrying passengers with a hantavirus outbreak has arrived in Spain's Canary Islands. Most of the nearly 150 people on board ...
10 May, 2026, 12.00 PM IST
All passengers on hantavirus-hit ship considered 'high-risk' contacts, EU health agency saysPassengers on a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak are considered high-risk contacts. Ahead of its anchoring off Tenerife, asy...
10 May, 2026, 07.27 AM IST
European states to send planes to evacuate citizens from hantavirus-hit cruise shipEuropean countries are sending aircraft to evacuate citizens from a cruise ship near Tenerife. The ship is carrying passengers affected by ...
09 May, 2026, 06.08 PM IST
Disney cruise ship staffers among 28 arrested by CBP in sweeping child pornography crackdown - What we know so farUS Customs and Border Protection (CBP) arrested Disney cruise ship employees among 28 for alleged child pornography offenses. The operation...
08 May, 2026, 12.11 PM IST
Plane believed carrying hantavirus-struck evacuee lands in AmsterdamAn air ambulance carrying a sick passenger from a hantavirus-hit cruise ship landed in Amsterdam Thursday after an emergency evacuation off...
07 May, 2026, 12.38 PM IST