U.S. cruise passengers arrive in the U.S. after one tests positive for hantavirus ^12.9%

NPR - By Pien Huang - 5/11/2026, 1:42 AM

Availability Heuristic 23.4% - Negativity Bias 19.9% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 19.3%

Seventeen U.S. cruise passengers returned to the U.S. early Monday, after weeks aboard the MV Hondius, the cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak, the Associated Press reported. The Americans disembarked the cruise in the Canary Islands on Sunday and boarded a medical repatriation flight, arranged by the U.S.... more

CDC advisers vote to overturn decades-long policy on hepatitis B vaccine for infants ^63.5%

NPR - By Pien Huang, Rob Stein, Carmel Wroth - 12/5/2025, 4:20 PM

In a historic vote, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisers recommended narrowing the agency's hepatitis B immunization guidance for newborns. The result, if approved by the CDC's acting director, will be a rollback of a universal recommendation to start hepatitis B immunization at birth, a standard practice in... more