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passengers from hantavirus-hit ship quarantined in Nebraska and Georgia Eighteen Americans evacuated from a cruise
hantavirus quarantine ](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/15/nx-s1-5819872/hantavirus-quarantine) ### [Health](https://www.npr.org/sections/health/) ### [Hantavirus
quarantine unit and the Nebraska biocontainment unit – on a special chartered flight. - **What measures are being taken to control the spread?** As well as one who tested positive, another passenger has mild symptoms of hantavirus
hantavirus outbreak](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/07/where-cruise-ship-hantavirus-from-what-next-canary-islands), with plans to accompany American passengers back to the US on a chartered flight and place them into quarantine in Nebraska
Quarantine Center is located at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/1280x1280+320+0/resize/100/quality/85/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F28%2Fe2%2Ff77e5d0f4fc1a1ba022b6fa25d15%2Fnqu3.jpg)](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/11/nx-s1-5818277/hantavirus-quarantine-cruise-ship) ### [Global Health](https://www.npr.org/sections/global-health/) ### [Why cruise ship passengers with possible hantavirus
Quarantine Unit](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/2026/05/08/nebraska-medicine-unmc-asked-to-monitor-u-s-citizens-from-cruise-ship-hantavirus-outbreak/) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) for an initial evaluation, according to the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention](https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2026/2026-cdc-provides-update-on-hantavirus-outbreak-linked-to-m-v-hondius-cruise-ship.html). "For the passengers getting
hantavirus outbreak. [These 17 passengers are among](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/10/nx-s1-5817578/hantavirus-cruise-ship-nebraska-us-passengers) the nearly 150 people from 23 countries who were on the ship. Three passengers have died since the outbreak began. During the flight back
hantavirus claimed the lives of three of his fellow passengers on the MV Hondius - sparking an international frenzy over how and where to repatriate others onboard. Facing weeks alone in quarantine, Rosmarin told
hantavirus](https://www.theguardian.com/world/hantavirus)-stricken cruise ship M/V Hondius were being repatriated to the United States on Sunday after the vessel docked in Tenerife and all the passengers were evacuated. Upon their arrival in [Spain
quarantine. Officials from the US Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday that one of the 18 American passengers evacuated from the ship had tested positive at a biocontainment unit in Nebraska while
quarantine. It comes 41 days after the MV Hondius set off from southern Argentina and nine days after the first positive test result for the respiratory viral infection. Three people – a Dutch couple
Nebraska, where they were to be quarantined. French Health Minister Stephanie Rist revealed on Sunday that one of five French passengers had developed symptoms on a flight home to France on Sunday. The woman
hantavirus before boarding the ship, during a birdwatching excursion at an Argentine landfill site. More than two dozen American passengers were aboard the ship. Seven have already returned to the United States, but 17 more
hantavirus was reported on 4 May. Eighteen American passengers have returned to the US. Sixteen are being screened at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in the city of Omaha and two are in Atlanta
Nebraska. Seven other US passengers had already returned and are being monitored in their home states. A British national who resides in the US was evacuated along with the 17 American passengers. Before the American