No Americans have tested positive for hantavirus tied to cruise ship outbreak, CDC says

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/15 6:05A Scripps News Group

Federal health officials say no one in the United States has tested positive for hantavirus following an outbreak linked to a cruise ship. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday it is monitoring 41 people nationwide who may...

French hantavirus patient critically ill, being treated with artificial lung

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/13 3:48A AP via Scripps News Group

A French woman infected in the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship is critically ill and being treated with an artificial lung, a doctor at the Paris hospital caring for the sickened passenger said Tuesday. The outbreak has now reached 11...

Dr. Marty Makary resigns as FDA commissioner

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/12 7:45A AP via Scripps News Group

The head of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Marty Makary, is resigning after a rocky tenure that drew months of complaints from health industry executives, anti-abortion activists and other allies of President Donald Trump. He steps down...

Survey highlights gap between SPF awareness and daily use among Americans

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/12 6:26A Talker Research via Scripps News

Which screen wins your attention your phone screen or sunscreen? According to a new study, Americans are four times as likely to remember to plug their phone in at night than they are to put sunscreen on daily. The poll of 2,000 U.S. adults...

CDC leader rejects claims US is ‘less safe’ amid cruise ship hantavirus cases

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/12 5:17A Justin Boggs

Acting Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya defended the United States response to a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, after one of his predecessors said actions by the Trump administration leave the country...

Small study hints that revving up immune cells might help fight HIV

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/12 5:08A By LAURAN NEERGAARD

WASHINGTON (AP) Scientists are tweaking a powerful cancer therapy in hopes it could fight HIV instead, by supercharging patients' own immune cells . On Tuesday, researchers said a single dose of those revved-up cells strongly suppressed HIV in...

Supreme Court temporarily extends access to abortion pill

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/11 9:59A AP via Scripps News Group

The Supreme Court is leaving womens access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, mifepristone, to take effect. Justice Samuel Alitos order Monday...

Cruise ship passengers now being monitored in Omaha, Atlanta after hantavirus outbreak

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/11 5:18A Scripps News Group

A total of sixteen passengers from a cruise ship linked to a hantavirus outbreak are being monitored at the Nebraska Medical Center, where one person who tested mildly positive is being cared for in a biocontainment unit. The remaining 15...

2 passengers test positive for hantavirus as a third shows symptoms after cruise ship evacuation

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/11 1:17A AP via Scripps News Group

A French woman and an American tested positive for the hantavirus, as nations around the world scrambled Monday to repatriate passengers from a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak and quarantine or isolate them. Passengers from the ship began...

Plane carrying Spanish passengers from hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius cruise ship leaves for Madrid

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/10 2:25A AP via Scripps News Group

The first plane carrying passengers from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship left Spains Canary Islands on Sunday for Madrid, where they will be taken to a military hospital. Spanish nationals were the first to leave the MV Hondius, which remains...

CDC sidelines itself as hantavirus cruise ship outbreak grabs global attention

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/9 4:16A AP via Scripps News Group

No quick dispatching of disease investigators. No news conference to inform the public. No timely health alerts to doctors. In the midst of a strange outbreak of hantavirus on a cruise ship that involves Americans and is making headlines around...

Canary Islands braces for arrival of cruise ship with hantavirus outbreak

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/8 2:14A Justin Boggs

More than 140 passengers on a cruise ship where multiple people became infected with hantavirus are expected to arrive this weekend in Spains Canary Islands. Spanish officials said the passengers will be evacuated from the ship and placed in...

Poll: MAHA supporters prioritize healthcare costs, show strong backing for RFK Jr.

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/6 7:53A Scripps News Group

A new poll shows Republicans are concerned about the cost of healthcare. According to KFF, the top healthcare priority for supporters of Make America Healthy Again is lowering costs. About half said the issue will have a major impact on whether...

Ship hit by deadly hantavirus outbreak leaves Cape Verde for Canary Islands

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/6 1:16A AP via Scripps News Group

The ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak departed Cape Verde with nearly 150 people on board and headed to Spains Canary Islands. Associated Press footage showed health workers in protective gear evacuating three passengers,...

What to know about hantavirus after cruise ship quarantine

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/5 4:37A Scripps News Group

A cruise ship with nearly 150 people remains stranded off Cape Verde after three passengers died in a suspected hantavirus outbreak. The Dutch vessel was on a polar cruise from Argentina to Antarctica when the rare rodent-borne illness struck....