transmitted

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Although the Andes virus can be transmitted between people, that requires close contact with an infected person, such as people who live together or healthcare workers.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

Evacuations were taking place Wednesday from a cruise ship stricken with a deadly outbreak of hantavirus, the World Health Organization said, as experts confirmed a rare strain that can be transmitted between humans.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

The World Health Organization said it is possible there was human-to-human transmission of hantavirus on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, a rare way the virus typically transmitted by rodents can spread.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

But there is one strain of hantavirus — known as the Andes virus — that can be transmitted from human to human, and has been transmitted in Thailand and Argentina.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

No matter where you were on the ship, you felt the power of the Olympic's twenty-nine boilers transmitted upward through the strakes of the hull.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson