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

At least five U.S. states are monitoring former passengers of a cruise ship experiencing a hantavirus outbreak, health officials said.

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

Spanish authorities on Friday were preparing to receive more than 140 passengers and crew members on board a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands.

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

About 150 people will be flown home as the MV Hondius arrived near the port of Granadilla in Tenerife.

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

The 17 passengers are set to be transferred to a special quarantine center in Nebraska to ‘assess them for risk’

After being flown to a medical centre in Nebraska, some will be allowed to "self-isolate" in their home states.

The evacuees will be taken to the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha for further assessment, while one passenger who tested positive will be taken to a biocontainment…

Three people have died since the outbreak, and five passengers who left the ship had been infected with hantavirus, which can cause life-threatening illness

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

Evacuated passengers from a hantavirus-affected cruise ship face health monitoring after one tests positive and another shows symptoms.

Another one of 17 Americans who are being flown home has mild symptoms, the US health department says.

According to the Health Department, the 17 US citizens are currently on their way home aboard an aircraft provided by the State Department

The 17 U.S. passengers evacuated from the MV Hondius would first be taken to the University of Nebraska Medical Center, which has a federally funded quarantine facility.

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Americans who were on board the cruise ship at the center of hantavirus outbreak are headed to Nebraska to quarantine. Here's what that is like.

One passenger has tested positive for Andes virus, a rare type of hantavirus, while another is showing mild symptoms, health officials say.

Passengers and close contacts, some with symptoms, monitored until not contagious: From Santa Clara, California, to Nebraska, to Emory University in Atlanta.