LA Times Cites Inside Medicine for Hantavirus Updates
Californians were aboard hantavirus-stricken cruise ship. Is there a risk to the public?
By Karen Garcia and Rong-Gong Lin II
May 7, 2026
The flight attendant has since tested negative for the Andes virus, Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency medicine physician, wrote on his Substack blog, Inside Medicine, citing a text message sent to him by Tedros.
“It is still possible that the flight attendant contracted the Andes virus. However, given our understanding of the virus, this information means that the flight attendant’s symptoms are not caused by the Andes hantavirus, but by some other medical illness,” Faust wrote.
