Why cruise ships create an ‘ideal’ environment for disease — and the worst-case scenarios

Cruise ship are an “ideal” environment for diseases to spread, a virologist told The Post: “They are essentially dense, semi-closed ecosystems where thousands of people share space,

Hantavirus victims may have got infected on trip ashore from cruise ship, says London expert

Victims of a Hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship may have got infected on a trip ashore, an expert in London has said.Roger Hewson, a professor in Molecular Virology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,