Press & media kit
Everything you need to cover the 2026 MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak — open data, ready quotes, dashboard screenshots and a direct line to the team. No embargo, no paywall.
Open data
Full structured dataset, refreshed continuously.
Spreadsheet-ready. Datawrapper, Flourish, Excel.
Suggested citation: HantaCount (2026). 2026 hantavirus outbreak open dataset. https://hantacount.com — CC-BY-4.0.
Visuals
Ready quotes
“Andes virus is the only hantavirus with documented person-to-person transmission. The reason MV Hondius matters isn't the case count — it's a confined-space stress test of a strain we've only seen chain in households before.”
“A case-fatality rate around 19% looks alarming, but Andes virus has an effective reproduction number well below one outside very close contact. It is serious for the exposed; it is not a pandemic precursor.”
“The hardest signal investigators are watching is a clearly tertiary case — someone infected with no link to the ship and no link to a known patient. Until that flips, this is contained.”
Quotes can be attributed to a named editor on request — email below.
How to cite
Copy a citation into your article, paper or report. Dataset is CC-BY-4.0 — attribution is the only requirement.
HantaCount. (2026). 2026 hantavirus outbreak open dataset (Andes virus, MV Hondius cluster) [Data set]. https://hantacount.com — CC-BY-4.0HantaCount. "2026 Hantavirus Outbreak Open Dataset (Andes Virus, MV Hondius Cluster)." HantaCount, 2026-05-12, hantacount.com. Accessed [date].HantaCount. "2026 Hantavirus Outbreak Open Dataset (Andes Virus, MV Hondius Cluster)." Last modified 2026-05-12. https://hantacount.com.@misc{hantacount2026,
title = {2026 hantavirus outbreak open dataset (Andes virus, MV Hondius cluster)},
author = {{HantaCount}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://hantacount.com}},
note = {CC-BY-4.0, accessed 2026-05-12}
}Embed the live counter
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About HantaCount
HantaCount is an independent, volunteer-run public-health tracker built in May 2026 in response to the multi-country MV Hondius hantavirus cluster. It pulls primary documents from the WHO Disease Outbreak News, the ECDC, the US CDC and named national agencies into a single, multilingual, machine- readable view.
The dataset is permissively licensed (CC-BY-4.0) and the site operates without ads, paywalls or affiliate links. It is not a replacement for medical advice; it is a navigational layer over the documents that already exist.
Five languages on launch: English, Spanish, Türkçe, العربية, Nederlands.
Background reading
- What is hantavirus? — primer with sources.
- Andes virus — why this strain is the one to watch.
- Hantavirus vs. COVID — sober comparison for context.
- MV Hondius outbreak timeline.
Support our work
HantaCount is independent, volunteer-run, no ads, no paywalls. If the tracker, dataset or embed widget is useful to you, you can help cover infrastructure costs and free up more research time.
We do not run ads, accept paid placements, or paywall data. Every contribution goes to hosting, monitoring and translation.
Daily digest
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Contact
Custom data slices, on-the-record quotes, on-deadline numbers:
press@hantacount.comTypical reply time: under 6 hours during the active phase of the outbreak.