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Americans from hantavirus-hit cruise ship to quarantine in Nebraska
Nebraska Medicine will receive and monitor the 17 evacuees in the nation’s only federally funded quarantine unit, officials said.
- On Saturday, the State Department announced plans to repatriate 17 Americans from the MV Hondius cruise ship to the National Quarantine Unit in Nebraska for monitoring.
- The cruise ship, carrying more than 140 passengers and crew, is set to dock in Tenerife, Spain, on Sunday following a hantavirus outbreak that has claimed three lives and resulted in six confirmed cases of the Andes strain.
- Nebraska Medicine and the University of Nebraska Medical Center were asked to "receive and monitor" citizens at the National Quarantine Unit, which features 20 negative-pressure rooms designed to safely isolate patients.
- CDC officials clarified that there is no mandatory quarantine for passengers, who currently show no symptoms, although the agency is "actively monitoring and responding to a hantavirus outbreak."
- World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrived in Spain to oversee disembarkation, noting that while the Andes strain can spread person-to-person in rare cases, the overall public health risk remains low.
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US moving to evacuate American passengers aboard hantavirus cruise ship, quarantine in Nebraska
US officials are evacuating American passengers from a cruise ship linked to a deadly hantavirus outbreak, flying them to a Nebraska military base for quarantine and medical monitoring, the CDC said.
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Americans to be evacuated from Hantavirus cruise ship as global health chief travels to quarantine island - NEW YORK TIMES POST
Hantavirus outbreak: Cruise ship evacuates amid concerns for US passengers A deadly hantavirus outbreak on a Dutch cruise ship has prompted a global health operation. Three passengers have died, and 150 are evacuating to the Canary Islands, with U.S. states monitoring 17 American returnees. The WHO clarifies low human-to-human spread for the Andes virus strain, unlike COVID-19, and the CDC classifies this as a Level 3 emergency. NEWYou can now …
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