France has confirmed that a passenger who was flown back to France Sunday from a cruise ship struck by a deadly hantavirus outbreak has tested positive and several other contact cases are being isolated.

With the repatriation of five French nationals, now hospitalized in Paris, questions have arisen regarding the management and isolation of their contacts. The procedures for quarantine have been specified by decree.

A French national who was evacuated from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, where three passengers died of the rat-borne illness, has begun experiencing symptoms of the disease, officials said Sunday.

A deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard the Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius has triggered a global health response after passengers from the United States and France tested positive following evacuation from Spain's Canary Islands.

France's first case: A French woman tested positive after returning from Tenerife; she is isolating in Paris and her condition is deteriorating. U.S. reassures public: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the outbreak is under control and the public ...

Authorities around the world are scrambling to trace who may have been exposed to curb the spread of the deadly virus.

Health officials in Arizona, California, Georgia, New Jersey, Texas and Virginia are monitoring residents for potential infections.

Confirmed cases of hantavirus, which broke out in a group on a cruise ship sailing across the Atlantic, are continuing to be added one after another. According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) on the 10th, as of 2 p.m. that ...