WHO assures public safety amid low hantavirus outbreak risk on cruise ship after three deaths and several illnesses.

"The risk to the wider public remains low. There is no need for panic or travel restrictions," says the World Health Organization.

"The risk to the wider public remains low. There is no need for panic or travel restrictions," says the World Health Organization.

A suspected outbreak of hantavirus on a cruise ship, on which three people have died, presents a low risk to the public, the head of the World Health Organization Europe has said.