Passengers on hantavirus-hit cruise ship returning to home nations for monitoring
The Washington Post • • general
Key Points:
- Seventeen Americans from a cruise ship affected by a hantavirus outbreak are expected to be quarantined at a federal facility in Nebraska for assessment and monitoring.
- Passengers began disembarking Sunday in Tenerife, Canary Islands, as part of a coordinated repatriation and monitoring effort.
- The first evacuation flight took Spanish nationals to Madrid, where they will receive treatment at a military hospital.
- Multiple evacuation flights are planned over two days to safely transport and monitor all passengers.
