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American passengers from hantavirus-hit cruise ship arrive back in the U.S.

Nbcwashington · · 551 words · By Patrick Smith; NBC News
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“The 17 Americans who were aboard the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship Hondius have now arrived home in the United States.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that 17 Americans from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship Hondius arrived back in the United States.
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web search NEUTRAL — The 17 Americans onboard the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship M/V Hondius have disembarked the vessel after it docked in Tenerife on Sunday and are being repatriated to the United States.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/10/americans-ha…
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web search NEUTRAL — People from the cruise ship MV Hondius affected by a hantavirus outbreak are transferred by boat to the port after disembarking, at the port of Granadilla de Abona.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/10/us-news/17-americans-anxiously…
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web search NEUTRAL — The 17 Americans who were aboard the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship Hondius have now arrived home in the United States.The luxury cruise ship arrived early Sunday at the island of Tenerife, the large…
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/american-passenge…
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“A State Department plane carrying them landed at Omaha Eppley Airfield in Nebraska at about 2:30 a.m. ET Monday”
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Only one specific web search result mentions the landing at Omaha Eppley Airfield at 2:30 a.m. ET Monday. Other sources mention repatriation flights but not the specific time and location.
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web search NEUTRAL — A State Department plane carrying them landed at Omaha Eppley Airfield in Nebraska at about 2:30 a.m. ET Monday, and the passengers were due to be assessed and monitored at a nearby medical center.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/american-passenge…
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web search NEUTRAL — At least seven passengers from the same cruise ship have already returned to the US. State health departments are monitoring them for possible infections: two in Georgia, two in Texas, one in Virginia…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g4r8pm832o
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web search NEUTRAL — A second plane believed to be carrying a sick passenger from the ship arriving at the Schiphol airport, near Amsterdam."The Department of State is arranging a repatriation flight to support the safe r…
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/0509/1572469-hantavirus-c…
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“One passenger who is suffering mild symptoms will be taken to a second site to be treated separately, the Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.”
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Multiple sources confirm that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stated one passenger with mild symptoms would be treated at a separate site.
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web search NEUTRAL — One passenger who is suffering mild symptoms will be taken to a second site to be treated separately, the Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/american-passenge…
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web search NEUTRAL — The passenger with mild symptoms will be taken to another center, according to HHS.The incubation period for hantavirus, from first exposure to symptoms, is estimated at one to eight weeks, according …
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/10/one-cruise-ship-pas…
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web search NEUTRAL — The US Department of Health and Human Services (US HHS) said on Sunday that, out of 17 Americans being repatriated from a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, one has mild symptoms and another has tested …
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-895744
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“Two Americans traveled in the plane’s biocontainment units “out of an abundance of caution,” HHS said”
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Both Politico and The Guardian report that HHS stated two passengers traveled in biocontainment units out of an abundance of caution.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Nebraska Biocontainment Unit was dedicated in 2005 and has been used to care for patients with diseases such as Ebola virus disease and COVID-19.[3]. Activations and public health responses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Quarantine_Unit
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web search NEUTRAL — The two passengers are traveling in the plane’s biocontainment units “out of an abundance of caution,” HHS wrote in a post on the social media website X.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/10/one-cruise-ship-pas…
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web search NEUTRAL — Those two passengers were travelling in the plane’s biocontainment units, it added. The US state department’s airlift would transport passengers to the ASPR regional emerging special pathogen treatmen…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/10/americans-ha…
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“one passenger tested “mildly” positive for the Andes strain of the virus.”
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Multiple sources confirm that one American passenger tested positive for the Andes strain of hantavirus.
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web search NEUTRAL — Topline A U.S. and a French passenger evacuated from the Hantavirus-hit cruise ship in the Atlantic have tested positive for the virus, while another American passenger is displaying "mild ...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/05/08/hantavi…
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web search NEUTRAL — American passengers from the cruise ship at the center of the hantavirus outbreak, including at least one presumed positive case, arrived in Nebraska early Monday for evaluation at a highly ...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/10/us/hantavirus-cruise-passenge…
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web search NEUTRAL — An American and a French passenger linked to the Hondius cruise ship outbreak tested positive for the Andes strain of hantavirus, a rare respiratory disease, less than a day after leaving the ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-11/us-says-o…
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“One British national with U.S. citizenship was also on the flight, Spanish authorities said earlier.”
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web search NEUTRAL — One British national with U.S. citizenship was also on the flight, Spanish authorities said earlier. Meanwhile, a woman who was among 5 French passengers repatriated Sunday to Paris from the Hondius h…
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/american-passenge…
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web search NEUTRAL — Both Spanish and British authorities said on Sunday that the green-coloured certificate of EU citizenship with a foreign national identification number issued by Spain is still valid for British citiz…
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/british-flights-spain-…
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web search NEUTRAL — After a British national with a suspected hantavirus infection disembarked from the Hondius on the island of Tristan da Cunha, the UK military parachuted "specialist paratroopers and military clinicia…
https://www.dw.com/en/hantavirus-passengers-leave-tenerife-o…
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“a woman who was among five French passengers repatriated Sunday to Paris from the Hondius has tested positive for hantavirus”
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web search NEUTRAL — An American national on a repatriation flight has tested positive for hantavirus while another has mild symptoms after leaving a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak of the virus, the US health depart…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjep78l5835o
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web search NEUTRAL — French evacuee repatriated from hantavirus-hit ship has 'symptoms': French PM.The five French passengers from the cruise ship who have just landed will be transported to Bichat Hospital in Paris, wher…
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260510-live-spanish-pas…
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web search NEUTRAL — The five French nationals were evacuated from the MV Hondius, which was anchored off Tenerife, in Spain, as part of a coordinated international repatriation effort. From Tenerife, passengers were flow…
https://www.news18.com/world/french-cruise-passenger-shows-h…
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“The luxury cruise ship arrived early Sunday at the island of Tenerife, the largest of Spain’s Canary Islands off the coast of west Africa.”
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Cross-reference from EuroNews and web search results confirm the ship arrived at Tenerife, Canary Islands, on Sunday.
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https://www.resetera.com/threads/restaurants-are-adding-doze…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 31, 2025 · Yeah that's like you're asked to throw out the food or leave. If your kids are picky, you probably need to be ordering takeout for yourself. Restaurants protecting the basic foundations…
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“Its long and arduous journey saw six confirmed cases and two suspected cases of the disease, usually associated with rodents, and the deaths of three passengers.”
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“The Dutch-flagged Hondius departed Argentina on April 1 with almost 150 on board”
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“A Dutch passenger then died at sea 11 days later.”
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“His body was taken off the ship as it stopped as the remote Atlantic island of St Helena.”
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“That passenger’s wife traveled from there to Johannesburg where she died in hospital days later”
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“16 of the Americans would be treated at the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center (RESPTC) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center/Nebraska Medicine in Omaha.”
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“A plane carrying 14 Spanish passengers took off for Madrid on Sunday”
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“French, Canadian and British passengers were also flown back to their countries.”
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“Hantavirus infections among people are rare and have never previously been recorded on a cruise ship.”
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“A World Health Organization investigation is under way to pinpoint the origin of this outbreak”
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“particular attention placed on a birdwatching trip in southern Argentina, which the first passenger to die took part in before joining the cruise.”
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