Three case files. All public. All sourced. None of them on the front page.
The first North American hantavirus outbreak ran for weeks under labels including unexplained respiratory illness and Navajo flu before the CDC and the Navajo Nation agreed on a neutral name. The virus is now called Sin Nombre — Spanish for no name.
⛯ CDC MMWR · Vol 42 No 21 · May 1993 ↗The 1996 El Bolson cluster was a peer-reviewed outbreak of Andes virus where transmission between people in close quarters was documented for the first time. Andes virus remains the only hantavirus with confirmed human-to-human spread.
⛯ Wells et al. · Emerging Infectious Diseases, CDC, 1997 ↗The WHO R&D Blueprint lists priority pathogens and the triggers that escalate a response. Hantaviruses sit on its extended watch list. The document is public. It is searchable. It is not on the news.
⛯ WHO R&D Blueprint · who.int ↗