Global health officials race to track hantavirus but predict ‘limited’ outbreak.

By CLAIRE MOSES, AIMEE ORTIZ and RYLEE KIRK Health officials in a growing list of countries scrambled Thursday to track people connected to a deadly outbreak of the hantavirus on a cruise ship. The World Health Organization also predicted a “limited” spread of the virus if public health measures were implemented. “This is not COVID; this is not influenza,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s head of epidemic and pandemic preparedness, said at a news conference in Geneva on Thursday. “This...

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