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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The U.S. Department of Health said on Sunday that one of the 17 Americans who are being repatriated from the affected cruise
The U.S. Department of Health reported on Sunday (10) that one of the 17 repatriated Americans from the cruise ship affected by a hantavirus outbreak tested positive for the virus. "One passenger is presenting mild symptoms and another passenger tested positive for the Andes strain of the virus through PCR," said the Department of Health.
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estrepublicain.frAfter a first day of landing on Sunday in the Canary Islands of nearly 100 passengers and crew members of the MV Hondius, evacuation operations are scheduled to be completed on Monday.
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