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Health workers in protective gear arrive to evacuate patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

3 patients are being evacuated to Europe from cruise ship with hantavirus outbreak

By Annie Risemberg and Misper Apawu - Associated Press

The rural family home where Rodrigo Morinigo, who died from hantavirus in January at the age of 14, lived with his family when he contracted the illness in San Andres de Giles, Argentina, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Hantavirus is on the rise in Argentina, where a stricken cruise ship began its journey

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Health workers in protective gear arrive to evacuate patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

3 patients are being evacuated to Europe from cruise ship with hantavirus outbreak

By Annie Risemberg, Misper Apawu, Jamey Keaten and Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Health workers get off the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius, a cruise ship carrying nearly 150 people as it remains off Cape Verde on Monday, May 4, 2026 after three passengers died and several others fell seriously ill in a suspected hantavirus outbreak. (Qasem Elhato via AP)

Inside the cruise ship at the center of the hantavirus outbreak

Associated Press

FILE - A woman works at her shop in Epuyen, Argentina, Friday, Jan. 11, 2019, after an outbreak of hantavirus. (AP Photo/Gustavo Zaninelli, File)

What to know about hantavirus, the illness suspected in a cruise ship outbreak

By Susan Montoya Bryan - Associated Press

The World Health Organization signage is seen outside its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, April 15, 2020. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

A suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean kills 3 people, WHO says

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

FILE - A health worker shows a bottle of the malaria vaccine R21/Matrix-M before administering it to a child at the comprehensive Health Centre in Agudama-Epie, in Yenagoa, Nigeria, on Dec. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

WHO says vaccinations save millions in Africa, but U.S. aid cuts and Iran war threaten progress

By Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press

FILE - A man suffering from mpox waits for treatment at the Kamituga General Hospital in South Kivu Congo, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

Congo says its mpox outbreak is over after 2 years and more than 2,200 suspected deaths

Associated Press

A health care worker prepares a shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in La Paz, Bolivia, Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)

Highly mutated ‘cicada’ COVID variant detected in 25 states

By The Washington Times AI News Desk

A healthcare worker administers polio vaccine to a child in the Ndirande Township of Blantyre, Malawi, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Kenneth Jali)

Malawi vaccinates a new generation of children against polio, which still hasn’t been eradicated

By Gregory Gondwe - Associated Press

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, left, delivers his statement during the opening of the 78th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, May 19, 2025. (Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP, File)

U.S. completes withdrawal from World Health Organization

By Mike Stobbe and Devi Shastri - Associated Press

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, left, delivers his statement during the opening of the 78th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, May 19, 2025. (Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP, File)

WHO no more, as Trump smacks ‘America First’ on global medical bureaucracy

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Citizens protest against what they called the government's lack of action to combat air pollution in the capital city New Delhi, India, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Air pollution levels surge in India’s capital, sparking rare protests

By Rishi Lekhi - Associated Press

This photo released by UNICEF shows displaced children and families from el-Fasher at a displacement camp where they sought refuge from fighting between government forces and the RSF, in Tawila, Darfur region, Sudan, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. (Mohammed Jammal/UNICEF via AP)

Militia attack on hospital in Darfur came in waves, WHO says

By Sarah El Deeb and Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in Karachi, Pakistan, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

The world nearly beat polio. But fake records, an imperfect vaccine and missteps aided its comeback

By Maria Cheng and Riazat Butt - Associated Press

World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classifying automotive gasoline as a “carcinogenic” compound illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Litigation city: World Health Organization affiliate classifies gasoline as ‘carcinogenic’

By Bonner Russell Cohen

FILE - This 2014 photo made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a feeding female Anopheles gambiae mosquito, known vector for the parasitic disease malaria. (James Gathany/CDC via AP, File)

Swiss medicines authority issues first approval for antimalarial drug for treatment of infants

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province, Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

World Heath Organization fails to find COVID origin in latest probe

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), applauds as member countries approve an agreement to combat future pandemics, during the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA78) at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP)

WHO members adopt a ‘pandemic agreement’ born out of the disjointed global COVID response

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivers his statement during the opening of the 78th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, May 19, 2025. (Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP)

After U.S. cuts funding, WHO chief defends $2.1B budget request by comparing it with cost of war

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press