Americans onboard hantavirus cruise ship to be repatriated to US as one tests positive

Seventeen passengers to be taken to a Nebraska quarantine center to be assessed, with one testing positive and another showing symptoms Explainer: what happens to all the cruise ship passengers now and will they quarantine? The 17 Americans onboard the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship M/V Hondius – including one person who has tested positive – have disembarked the vessel after it docked in Tenerife on Sunday and are being repatriated to the US. Upon their arrival in Spain, medical teams from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awaited and interviewed the passengers, whose identities have not been publicly disclosed and who have not tested positive for the virus, about their exposure on the cruise. The passengers are due to arrive in Nebraska on a special chartered flight, the authorities said. Nebraska is home to the national quarantine unit and the Nebraska biocontainment unit. Of the 17 Americans being repatriated, one had mild symptoms of hantavirus and another had tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes strain of the virus, the US health and human services department (HHS) confirmed on Sunday night. Those two passengers were travelling in the plane’s biocon