Paris, France, May 6, 2026 (AFP) - 'Oh, gosh': Inside the race to test for cruise ship hantavirus

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It was the start of a long weekend in South Africa on Friday when Lucille Blumberg received an email from a fellow infectious disease specialist about an unknown illness on a cruise ship. She would go on to play an instrumental role in getting samples from people who had been on the ship tested for hantavirus, which revealed the rare illness was behind a deadly outbreak that has sparked an international health scare. Blumberg, who works at South......

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