Doctor on ship who helped care for passengers with hantavirus leaves medical isolation unit

Doctor from hantavirus-stricken ship tests negative, moves out of biocontainment unit

By Erin Burnett, Katherine Dillinger, Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Stephen Kornfeld, a passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship who had tested “faintly positive” for hantavirus, has now tested negative and been moved out of a Nebraska biocontainment unit. Kornfeld, 69, an Oregon oncologist, had helped care for ill passengers aboard the cruise ship and himself developed a “flu-like illness,” he said on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” on Tues…

US Doctor From Hantavirus-Linked Cruise Ship Cleared to Leave Nebraska Isolation Unit

An oncologist traveling on the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak has been cleared to leave a special biocontainment unit in Nebraska. Dr. Stephen Kornfeld of Bend, Oregon, was among more than 120 passengers and crew evacuated from the ship and flown to various countries for quarantine. Kornfeld helped care for fellow passengers who became sick on board and was brought to the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha with 15…

Oregon doctor on ship who helped care for passengers with hantavirus leaves medical isolation unit

An oncologist traveling on the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak has been cleared to leave a special biocontainment unit in Nebraska, where he was the lone American placed in isolation after he helped care for fellow passengers who became sick on board. Read more...

Doctor who helped on hantavirus-hit cruise ship leaves isolation

American doctor Stephen Kornfeld, who helped care for sick passengers during the hantavirus cruise ship outbreak, was the only American sent to Nebraska’s high-security biocontainment unit after an inconclusive test result.

US Cruise Passenger Cleared of Hantavirus Isolation

An American cancer doctor whose cruise vacation suddenly turned into a public-health story is now out of isolation, the New York Times reports. Nebraska Medicine says Dr. Stephen Kornfeld, who had been housed in a high-security biocontainment unit after a "mildly positive" hantavirus test, has been downgraded to a quarantine...

Nebraska Medicine says passenger in Omaha's biocontainment unit has been moved to quarantine

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – Nebraska Medicine on Wednesday said the cruise ship passenger who was originally housed in Omaha’s biocontainment unit has been moved to the National Quarantine Unit. Health officials said he has been medically cleared to move into the quarantine unit. The 16 patients being monitored at the University of Nebraska Medical Center remain asymptomatic. The Centers for...