Hantaviruses remain on the minds of New York-area residents after a deadly outbreak aboard a foreign cruise ship and a suspected new infection in the Finger Lakes region.
A rare strain of hantavirus has been blamed for the deaths of three passengers aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius, which disembarked from Argentina last month. That outbreak sparked quarantines and monitoring of New York and New Jersey area residents who were passengers aboard the cruise ship or had contact with those who were.
More worries worries surfaced on Thursday, with reports of a suspected hantavirus case in Ontario County, New York, though public health officials said there was no link between that case and the cruise ship infections, multiple local media outlets reported…