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Acting CDC director on hantavirus: ‘This is not COVID’
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Acting CDC director on hantavirus: ‘This is not COVID’

The Hill · May 10, 2026, 2:46 PM · Also reported by 4 other sources

Key takeaways

  • The key message I want to send to your audience is that this is not COVID, this is not going to have — lead to the kind of outbreak, he added.
  • An outbreak of hantavirus on a Dutch cruise ship in the Atlantic recently spiked public concerns about the virus, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • The U.S. was set to send a charter flight to bring home Americans on board the MV Hondius once it docked off the Spanish coast.

Why this matters: political developments that affect policy direction and public trust.

We ve been communicating the last week as the — as the sort of the, the press attention has picked up more with the public, as is appropriate, given the nature of this disease, Bhattacharya told CNN s Jake Tapper on State of the Union.

The key message I want to send to your audience is that this is not COVID, this is not going to have — lead to the kind of outbreak, he added.

An outbreak of hantavirus on a Dutch cruise ship in the Atlantic recently spiked public concerns about the virus, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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