For some experts, the outbreak is raising broader concerns about how equipped the U.S. is to respond to future infectious disease threats.

Six years ago, the Grand Princess cruise ship was rerouted to the Bay Area after passengers and crew developed flu-like symptoms on a voyage from Hawaii. The California National Guard airlifted in ...

A hantavirus outbreak is one of the latest health crises tied to cruise ships, but experts say travelers don't have new cause for concern.

U.S. cases of hantavirus are rare, and generally don't transmit person to person. Hantavirus does not easily mutate and spread like COVID-19 and flu viruses do, making it easier f ...

Legionnaires’ disease (a serious lung disease caused by bacteria) shows a different kind of risk. It is not usually spread ...

The American passengers stranded on a Dutch cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak have finally returned to the United States, including one who tested positive and another who’s ...

When the Covid-19 pandemic abruptly upended global travel in 2020, the cruise industry was hit particularly hard. That year, the combined revenue of the world’s three largest cruise line operators – ...

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 ...