New York Times Uses Inside Medicine as Source for Hantavirus News
Global Health Officials Race to Track Hantavirus but Predict ‘Limited’ Outbreak
By Claire Moses, Aimee Ortiz, and Rylee Kirk
May 7, 2026
On Thursday evening, Tedros Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, said in a message that the flight attendant, who has been reported to have symptoms, had tested negative on two tests. The news was first reported in the Inside Medicine newsletter. The result is reassuring because it suggests the virus is not being transmitted in ways beyond what scientists have observed in prior outbreaks. Dr. Tedros did caution, however, that the virus can have a long incubation time.
