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A French woman infected with a severe form of hantavirus is on life support in a hospital in Paris after returning from a rat virus-stricken cruise.

Ten Brits linked to a deadly rat virus outbreak on a cruise ship are being flown to the UK to isolate.

A deadly virus outbreak on a cruise ship that no government was willing to accept sounds like a nightmare scenario.

On Friday it was confirmed that a British national with suspected hantavirus disembarked the ship at the remote volcanic island of Tristan da Cunha, which is where they live.

British passengers and crew from the cruise ship at the center of the hantavirus outbreak are set to be taken to a hospital in Merseyside to isolate.

Cape Verde will not allow a cruise ship to dock in its ports after three people on board died following an outbreak of a rare respiratory virus.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared Mpox a global health emergency as scientists say they are alarmed by a new strain that is spreading.

A research team used an established risk analysis tool called the Grunow-Finke assessment to create a likelihood scale for possible pandemic causes have come to interesting Covid conclusions

Scientists have discovered people showing no signs of tuberculosis - such as a prevalent cough once seen as a key symptom - can pass on the killer bug

A leap in the number of cars on the roads of the Greater Manchester area could be the cause of a sharp rise in the number of children having to be hospitalised with breathing difficulties and lung problems

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation, said the 'key medicine' Palestinians need is peace - and called for a ceasefire to avoid more suffering

Research has shown that a 15-minute cold shower could slash 353 calories every day, as more than 25 percent of adults in England are reported to be living with obesity

Injecting your kids can feel concerning, writes Mirror columnist Sara Wallis, but if we can prevent outbreaks with nasty complications, then surely skipping vaccines is not a risk worth taking?

The deadly illness causes people to bleed from the eyes ears and mouth and is spread by infected rats. In 2022, three cases were reported in the UK after a family returned from West Africa

The groundbreaking report, which was published in The Lancet, suggests that obesity rates have more than doubled in the UK for women, men, and also surged for children and adolescents

Health experts are concerned in the fall in vaccination numbers for childhood vaccinations and will run a TV and social media campaign to target parents and hope to increase the uptake in jabs as measles cases rise across the nation

Norwegian Dawn, which carries 2,184 passengers and 1,026 crew members, was due to dock in Mauritius but was blocked owing to a possible outbreak of cholera onboard - testing has since found no trace of the disease

The World Health Organisation have said every death from measles is a 'tragedy' following a huge surge in cases across Europe, with infections on the rise in the UK

From a sugar-laden Five Guys milkshake and slushies to caffeine-heavy Prime energy drinks, nutritionists have warned which drinks parents should dodge for the sake of their child's health

A new study has found that people who exercise just once or twice a week can still lose weight, as long as they meet the recommendations set out by the World Health Organisation