2026-05-07 from globalnews.ca

New research from a Saskatoon-based infectious disease lab is examining the difference in the immune response between humans and rodents to identify a treatment for hantavirus.

Concern about the virus has increased after an outbreak was confirmed on a cruise ship. The World Health Organization is tracking exposure among passengers who boarded the ship on April 11 in Argentina. Three people have died as a result of the outbreak.

Deer mice are the primary carrier of hantavirus, according to Dr. Bryce Warner, a scientist with the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) at the University of Saskatchewan. But other rodents can carry the infection as well.

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