France’s health minister stated that experts do not yet have complete sequencing results for the virus and therefore cannot confirm whether any

With the repatriation of five French nationals, now hospitalized in Paris, questions have arisen regarding the management and isolation of their contacts. The procedures for quarantine have been specified by decree.

French Health Minister Stephanie Rist says health authorities don't have complete sequencing to determine whether the virus mutated, but for now, they are "reassured."

France has imposed strict measures to prevent further spread of hantavirus after one of the five passengers who returned from an infected ship tested positive. The passengers, plus anyone who has been in contact with them or others with "a serious risk of infection" can be subject to up to 42 days' isolation, according to a decree passed today.

An American and a French national who have returned to their home countries, having left a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak of hantavirus, have tested positive, authorities say.

France has confirmed that a passenger who was flown back to France Sunday from a cruise ship struck by a deadly hantavirus outbreak has tested positive and several other contact cases are being isolated.

A French national who was evacuated from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, where three passengers died of the rat-borne illness, has begun experiencing symptoms of the disease, officials said Sunday.

A deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard the Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius has triggered a global health response after passengers from the United States and France tested positive following evacuation from Spain's Canary Islands.

Derrière l’épidémie d’hantavirus du MV Hondius, chercheurs et autorités alertent sur l’exposition de certains travailleurs aux zoonoses.