World Health Organization – which the US left under Trump – has been leading the response to the cruise ship outbreak

But the US’s withdrawal from the WHO – and cuts to the country’s health system – stymie officials’ response

US CDC personnel are reportedly meeting ship in Canary Islands to accompany Americans on a flight to Nebraska

Officials say at least six US states are monitoring for possible cases after several passengers from the Dutch vessel MV Hondius returned home.

Three people have died since the outbreak, and five passengers who left the ship are infected with hantavirus.

“The CDC is not even a player," said Lawrence Gostin, an international public health expert at Georgetown University. “I've never seen that before.”

The CDC is playing an unusually small, and quiet, role in responding to the hantavirus outbreak.

World Health Organization – which the US left under Trump – has been leading the response to the cruise ship outbreak

The World Health Organization says Hondius passengers will disembark in groups in Tenerife, Spain, before taking flights home amid hantavirus outbreak.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted that WHO experts on the ground are working together with the Spanish Health Ministry

Seventeen Americans evacuated from a hantavirus-hit cruise ship were being airlifted to the United States late Sunday, U.S. health officials said.

The situation could still change and there might be more confirmed cases, warns the head of the World Health Organization.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus thanks Spain for ‘compassion and solidarity’ in evacuating virus-hit cruise ship