A woman who was exposed to hantavirus on the MV Hondius cruise has been ordered by US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to stay in federal quarantine, despite being cleared to return home to Florida by a federal health expert.

The passenger, Angela Perryman, remained detained as of Tuesday

CRUISESHIP-HANTAVIRUS/:Kennedy orders American exposed to hantavirus to stay quarantined against her will, WSJ reports | India News

Kennedy's order has "no medical basis" and flies in the face of his talk about "freedom" and fighting COVID mandates, her lawyer said.

A woman who was exposed to hantavirus on the MV Hondius cruise has been ordered by US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to stay in federal quarantine,…

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has refused to release a cruise ship passenger exposed to hantavirus from a quarantine facility in Nebraska