The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that currently 41 people across the U.S. are under monitoring for suspected hantavirus infection.
They include passengers who were recently repatriated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius in Tenerife, and are now in ASPR Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center/Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, and Emory. Also, passengers who had left the ship and had already returned home before the outbreak was identified, and people who have maybe been exposed during travel specifically on flights where a symptomatic case was present, are under monitoring.
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by Joji Xavier
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