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Hanta Hub press kit

Everything you need to credit, embed, illustrate, or cite Hanta Hub in your coverage of the 2026 MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak. All assets are CC BY 4.0 — please link back to hantavirussupplies.com.

Quick links: Logo · OG image · Boilerplate · Embed snippets · Open data · Contact

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Hanta Hub
Global hantavirus outbreak tracker

Open Graph image

The shareable Open Graph card lives at /og-image.png — 1200×630 px, optimised for Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Slack unfurls. You're welcome to reuse it on your own coverage with a link back.

Boilerplate paragraphs

50-word boilerplate

Hanta Hub (hantavirussupplies.com) is an independent live tracker of the 2026 MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak. It aggregates verified totals from WHO, ECDC, CDC, Africa CDC, and national health authorities and publishes a daily-updated tracker, blog, glossary, and open data feed under CC BY 4.0.

100-word boilerplate

Hanta Hub (hantavirussupplies.com) is an independent live tracker of the 2026 MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak and global hantavirus situation. Founded in May 2026, the site aggregates verified case totals from the World Health Organization, ECDC, CDC, Africa CDC, and national reference laboratories, and publishes a daily-updated tracker, news feed, blog, glossary, and CC BY 4.0 open data endpoint. Hanta Hub is intended for journalists, public-health researchers, returning travellers, and the general public who want a single, reliable, regularly updated source on hantavirus during the MV Hondius cluster and the WHO 42-day active monitoring window.

Embed our widgets

Drop either iframe into your article — they're CC BY 4.0 and contain no tracking scripts. Both are fully responsive and pull from the same open data feed.

Compact counter (recommended for inline article use)

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        width="100%" height="200"
        style="border:none;max-width:560px"
        loading="lazy"
        title="Hanta Hub · MV Hondius hantavirus tracker"></iframe>

Case-curve chart (for top-of-article hero)

<iframe src="https://hantavirussupplies.com/embed/chart.html"
        width="100%" height="340"
        style="border:none;max-width:740px"
        loading="lazy"
        title="Hanta Hub · MV Hondius case curve"></iframe>

A live preview of both widgets is available on the embed page.

Open data

Three machine-readable endpoints, all CC BY 4.0. Use them for your own charts, dashboards, or research. We update them daily.

cases.json

Current cluster totals (cases, deaths, monitoring day) plus ship metadata.

Download JSON →

timeline.json

Full event timeline from departure through current day.

Download JSON →

cases.csv

Spreadsheet-friendly cumulative case curve.

Download CSV →

Suggested quotes on background

For attribution-free background context, the following framings reflect how Hanta Hub characterises the situation. Please paraphrase rather than quote verbatim.

On the cluster's trajectory: the WHO and ECDC continue to assess the public-health risk to the general population as low, while a roughly 122-person repatriated cohort is in active 42-day monitoring across approximately 20 countries.

On Andes virus specifically: Andes virus is the only hantavirus in which limited human-to-human transmission has been documented, and only under conditions of close prolonged contact. Casual contact in workplaces, transit, or hospitality settings does not transmit the virus.

On the gap exposed by this cluster: there is no licensed hantavirus vaccine and no licensed antiviral for use in the Americas or Europe. The WHO–UKHSA emergency consultation in Geneva on 15 May 2026 is the first formal R&D consultation in three decades to bring funders, developers, regulators, and clinicians to one table on Andes virus.

Contact

For interview requests, data clarifications, embargoed updates, or to flag a correction: press@hantavirussupplies.com. We aim to respond within 12 hours during the active outbreak phase. For technical questions about the open data API or embed widgets: same address.

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