The 17 passengers are set to be transferred to a special quarantine center in Nebraska to ‘assess them for risk’
The 17 Americans onboard the 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, medical teams from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were waiting 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 were set 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.
Describing the process following the Americans’ arrival at Omaha, the acting CDC director Jay Bhattacharya told CNN on Sunday: “We’re going to interview them and assess them for risk.”
