No Sign of Larger Outbreak of Hantavirus: World Health Organization

An outbreak took place on a cruise ship.

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (R) speaks during a press conference with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Madrid, Spain, on May 12, 2026. Javier Soriano/AFP via Getty Images

No indications of a larger outbreak of the deadly hantavirus have appeared so far, a World Health Organization official said on May 12.

“At the moment, there is no sign that we are seeing the start of a larger outbreak,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the organization’s director-general, told reporters in Madrid, Spain, during a press conference with Spain’s prime minister.