American evacuated from cruise ship tests positive for hantavirus, another has symptoms, HHS confirms

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. Passengers wore personal protective equipment (PPE), as they disembarked from the MV Hondius cruise ship off Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands on Sunday. (Associated Press) One of the American citizens evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship and flown back to the U.S. tested positive for hantavirus without symptoms, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and another person had mild symptoms. Those two Americans traveled "in the plane's biocontainment units out of an abundance of caution," HHS noted in a Sunday night post on X. Seventeen Americans and one dual U.S.-U.K citizen from the ship were flown to the U.S. That dual national "is at the University of Nebraska Medical Center/Nebraska Medicine Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center (RESPTC) in Omaha with 15 of the other repatriated passengers," HHS noted in