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Health news • May 11

U.S. Passengers Exposed to Hantavirus Begin Quarantine, Including One With Positive Test

Eighteen people from a cruise ship that faced an outbreak are being monitored at medical facilities in Nebraska and Georgia. One tested positive for the...

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Health news • May 11

Engaging with the arts linked to slower aging at the biological level

Regularly taking part in arts activities such as reading, listening to music or visiting a gallery or museum may slow the pace of biological aging,...

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Health news • May 11

Enjoying the arts ‘has same effect on ageing as a weekly workout’

A weekly dose of culture is linked to ageing 4 per cent slower, a study has found — diverse interests may be especially beneficial.

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Health news • May 11

Why investors don't expect market meltdown from hantavirus

Stop us if you've heard this one before, but fears about the global spread of a frightening virus are catching Wall Street's attention.

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Health news • May 11

Ebola patient reflects on time at UNMC biocontainment unit

This is not the first time Nebraska has been at the center of treating an infections disease.

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Health news • May 11

Why cruise ship passengers with possible hantavirus exposure went to Nebraska

Sixteen of the 18 passengers transferred to the U.S. from a cruise ship where there was an outbreak of hantavirus arrived in Omaha, Neb., on Monday for...

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Health news • May 11

Could hantavirus spark the next pandemic? Pittsburgh doctors explain

In the wake of a deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship, some fear the virus could spark another pandemic similar to covid-19.

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Health news • May 11

Sacramento County resident may have been exposed to hantavirus on a plane, health official says

A resident from Sacramento County may have been exposed to Andes hantavirus on a plane in South Africa after sitting near a woman who had the virus,...

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Health news • May 11

Hantavirus NC | Person in North Carolina from hantavirus cruise ship among those quarantined in Nebraska

A North Carolina resident is among the Americans flown to Nebraska for monitoring after being on the hantavirus cruise ship.

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Health news • May 11

The system didn’t catch the hantavirus threat. Biology saved us.

Dr. Ashish K. Jha served as White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator under President Joe Biden and is a physician and public health researcher.

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Health news • May 11

First Real-Time Brain-Controlled Hearing Device

Researchers demonstrate a real-time brain-controlled hearing device that selectively enhances voices based on a listener's neural activity.

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Health news • May 11

CT virologist weighs in on deadly cruise ship hantavirus. ‘We need total rethinking’

A professor at Southern Connecticut State University who specializes in virology, the study of viruses, weighed in on the deadly Andes Hantavirus that...

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Health news • May 11

Moderna Stock Loses Steam. Hantavirus Trade Fizzles as Officials Dismiss Pandemic Risk.

and peer stocks rallied Monday as investors continued to bet on a global hantavirus outbreak, but those gains evaporated midday as health officials...

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Health news • May 11

Why hantavirus is not like COVID, according to infectious disease experts

The deadly cruise ship outbreak of hantavirus, a rare, rodent-borne illness, may have evoked some memories of the early days of COVID-19 — but infectious...

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Health news • May 11

Norovirus-hit cruise docks at Port Canaveral after 115 fall ill on nightmare voyage

A Princess Cruises ship linked to a norovirus outbreak that sickened more than 100 passengers and crew members arrived at Port Canaveral.

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Health news • May 11

A New Hantavirus Vaccine Is in the Works

Since 2023, Moderna and Korea University have been developing a new mRNA vaccine for hantavirus. The work has been promising so far, but a finished product...

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Health news • May 11

A Single Infusion Could Suppress H.I.V. for Years, Study Suggests

A study of a few patients, to be presented this week, showed promise for a type of therapy that has already cured some blood cancers.

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Health news • May 11

Moderna stock extends gains on hantavirus research

Moderna rallies 7% on hopes of hantavirus research.

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Health news • May 11

Where did the hantavirus outbreak start, and where has it spread?

The US and France are the latest to confirm hantavirus cases as evacuations from a cruise ship are under way.

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Health news • May 11

The Next Frontier for Hantavirus: Finding Vaccines and Treatments

Drug hunters have searched for years for a treatment for the rare infectious disease hantavirus, which caused an outbreak on a cruise ship that global...

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