American tests positive for hantavirus as U.S. airlifts cruise passengers home

All 17 Americans aboard a cruise ship hit with a deadly hantavirus outbreak have disembarked and are being taken to a specialized treatment facility in Nebraska, including one passenger who tested positive for the Andes virus and another who has mild symptoms.

The passengers will be assessed and receive care at the ASPR Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the Health and Human Services Department said in a statement.

Two of the passengers, one with mild symptoms and another who tested “mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus,” are traveling in biocontainment units “out of an abundance of caution,” it said.

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