When Jake Rosmarin boarded the MV Hondius, he gleefully posted on social media that the ship would be home for 35 days as he and more than 100 other passengers and crew were to travel across the South Atlantic.

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

American passengers from the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius are being cared for in Nebraska and Atlanta as health officials decide how to move forward.