Passengers from the cruise ship MV Hondius stricken by the Andes variant of hantavirus, are being evacuated home, including 18 Americans who were flown to a military base in Omaha and then to U.S. medical centers.
The U.S. passengers left the vessel, anchored near Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands, on May 10 and landed in Nebraska on May 11 aboard a U.S. government medical repatriation flight.
Sixteen of those passengers were sequestered at the National Quarantine Center at the University of Nebraska.
The other two, a couple, were taken to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. One of them was experiencing hantavirus symptoms but tested negative for the virus.
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