One US citizen tests mildly positive for hantavirus, another has mild symptoms
Two passengers are traveling in biocontainment units after one tested mildly PCR positive and another showed mild symptoms, officials said.
- 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 and Human Services has stated that one of the 17 American citizens repatriated from the cruise ship MV Hondius hit by the Hantavirus...
By Chris Boyette, CNN - American passengers from the cruise ship at the center of the hantavirus outbreak, including at least one suspected case, arrived in Nebraska early Monday to be evaluated in a highly specialized quarantine unit before finally continuing on to their homes, where they will be monitored for weeks for possible symptoms of infection. The virus, typically associated with rodents, may have been transmitted from person to person …
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