Passengers who left cruise early monitored for hantavirus in U.S., worldwide

The effort to monitor the spread of hantavirus from a cruise ship currently off the west coast of Africa is expanding, including in the United States, after health officials confirmed the virus on the ship is the rare strain that is transmissible from human to human. Twelve countries are currently monitoring people who had disembarked the cruise ship before cases of hantavirus were confirmed, the World Health Organization said at a press conference Thursday. …