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

Updated on: May 12, 2026 / 7:39 AM EDT / CBS News

WHO chief says "work not over" after evacuation of hantavirus-stricken cruise ship

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Tuesday that "our work is not over" to contain hantavirus after evacuations from a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak of the illness.

Nobu Review

This affectionate portrait of chef Nobuyuki Matsuhisa finds surprising emotional depth beneath the glossy surface of the Nobu brand – with a cameo from Robert De Niro

The Nancy Guthrie investigation could hang on a strand of DNA

One hundred days is an agonizingly long time for a family to go without answers about their missing loved one. It's also long enough for the investigators working the case to feel the grind.

‘I couldn’t breathe’: the sinister spread of France’s killer seaweed

After a series of deaths on the beaches of Brittany, one bereaved family set out to prove the foul-smelling bloom was to blame

Hot divorcee summer: get ready for big hats, hot sex and don’t-care energy

Fresh out of wedlock and in the mood for some fun? Join your newly single sisters in the glow-up to end all glow-ups

Americans from the Hantavirus-Stricken Cruise Ship Were Taken to a Quarantine Unit in Nebraska. Here's Why.

Updated on: May 11, 2026 / 8:42 PM EDT / CBS News

Americans enter quarantine after returning from hantavirus cruise ship

The 18 Americans who were aboard a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship have returned to the U.S. and are now in quarantine. One remains in the biocontainment unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center after testing positive. Ian Lee has more.

Gymnast speaks out about alleged abuse by coach years after Larry Nassar scandal

Years after USA Gymnastics was rocked by the scandal of Larry Nassar, the disgraced doctor who pleaded guilty to molesting multiple young gymnasts, a gymnast alleges another coach abused her as a child because warnings went unheeded. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Jim Axelrod has the details.

‘Difficult’ mission to repatriate Australian hantavirus cruise passengers en route to long Perth quarantine

Health minister Mark Butler says six people from MC Hondius plus flight crew from charter plane to be isolated for weeks

Children of the Blitz review

The last survivors of the blitz share their stories to mark 85 years since it ended. It is a hugely moving film that is all too relevant today – but what a privilege it is to witness

CDC's acting director says hantavirus is not "a five-alarm fire bell"

Washington — Jay Bhattacharya, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, defended the federal government's response to the deadly hantavirus outbreak, saying it doesn't make sense to sound "a five-alarm fire bell" because the risk to the public is "much, much lower" than what we saw with the COVID-19 pandemic.