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Hantavirus Outbreak: US Passengers Evacuated From Cruise Ship Head Home to Nebraska
A CDC-chartered flight carrying 17 Americans from the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius is en route to Nebraska as the repatriation operation unfolds in Tenerife. The Silicon Review reports on the level 3 hantavirus outbreak response. The first U.S. government-chartered flight carrying American passengers from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius is en route from Tenerife, Spain, to Omaha, Nebraska, as a carefully coordinated international repatriation operation enters its final phase. Seventeen U.S. nationals are aboard the flight, which is scheduled to land at Offutt Air Force Base early Monday, May 11. From there, passengers will be transported to the University of Nebraska Medical Center's National Quarantine Unit the only federally funded quarantine facility in the United States. The state-of-the-art 20-bed unit, which opened in November 2019, features negative air pressure systems designed to prevent the spread of communicable diseases. The hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius has claimed three lives: a Dutch couple and a German passenger. According to the World Health Organization, eight cases have been reported (six confirmed, two suspected), caused...
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