Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (L) and World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus give a joint press conference at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid on May 12, 2026. WHO chief said 'work not over' after hantavirus evacuation, AFP reports. Photo by JAVIER SORIANO / AFP via Getty Images
No indications of a larger outbreak of the deadly hantavirus have appeared so far, a World Health Organization (WHO) 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.
