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- 1Three dead in suspected hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship●3 dead in suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship: What to know
Health authorities are investigating a suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship that has left three people dead. Officials are working to determine how passengers or crew were exposed and whether other travelers may be at risk. The cases are drawing attention because hantavirus is rare, has no specific treatment, and its appearance at sea raises questions about how the infection occurred and how the ship is responding.
- 2Hantavirus risk overblown, doctors say, as telemedicine fraud sentences land▼Physicians say hantavirus headlines outpace actual risk; three sentenced in Moscow-based $2B telemedicine fraud; 1 in 10 surgeons leave the profession within 8 years – Morning Medical Update
Physicians are pushing back on hantavirus coverage, arguing news headlines have exaggerated the actual risk to the public. In other medical news, three people have been sentenced in a Moscow-based telemedicine fraud scheme worth roughly $2 billion, and new figures show one in ten surgeons leave the profession within eight years. The stories are circulating in a medical news roundup.