Cruises are sold as floating holidays, but they are also useful for understanding public health. Cruise ships are carefully designed places where many people live, eat, relax and move through the same shared spaces for days at a time.

One of the patients had mild symptoms, while another tested positive. Officials said the test results were inconclusive.

The MV Hondius was the epicenter of the first-ever deadly outbreak of hantavirus aboard a modern cruise ship. Was this a freak occurrence, or a sign of things to come?

U.S. officials are monitoring people in six states, as health experts have emphasized the hantavirus outbreak is not the same as the covid pandemic.

Here's what to know about the cruise-ship outbreak of Andes virus, a type of hantavirus that can spread person to person.