One US citizen tests mildly positive for hantavirus, another has mild symptoms
One passenger has tested positive and another has mild symptoms as the 17 Americans are flown to Nebraska for quarantine and assessment.
- On Sunday, the United States Department of Health and Human Services confirmed 17 Americans are being airlifted home from the MV Hondius cruise ship following a hantavirus outbreak near the Canary Islands.
- The Andes strain of the virus can be fatal in up to 50% of cases, according to the World Health Organization , and has caused three deaths and sickened eight people with six confirmed cases.
- Passengers are being transported to the ASPR Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, with two suspected cases traveling in biocontainment units to prevent exposure.
- Spain, France, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Turkey, the UK, and Ireland are also evacuating their nationals from the ship, which remains anchored near Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
- Health authorities maintain the risk of the virus spreading is low, and WHO Director Maria Van Kerkhove stated, "We haven't been notified of any changes" to the strain's sequence.
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One evacuated passenger tests positive for hantavirus and another develops symptoms on flight home
Passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship have started flying home aboard military and government planes after the vessel anchored in the Canary Islands. Personnel in full-body protective gear and breathing masks had escorted the travelers from ship to shore…
One American has tested positive for hantavirus, another has mild symptoms
A passenger returning to the U.S. from a Dutch cruise ship where a hantavirus outbreak occurred has tested positive for the virus, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Sunday evening, while a second is showing mild symptoms. The two passengers are traveling in the plane’s biocontainment units “out of an abundance of caution,” HHS wrote in a post on the social media website X. The department is working in collaboration with other…
One evacuated passenger tests positive for hantavirus, another develops symptoms on flights home
TENERIFE, Canary Islands (AP) — Passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship began flying home aboard military and government planes Sunday after the vessel anchored in the Canary Islands, with one American testing positive and a French
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