Two passengers aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship contracted the Andes variant of hantavirus, making this the first known cases of U.S. citizens being affected by it. The passengers are being transported for treatment.
reported on Sunday night. The positive test result came as HHS announced that 17 U.S. citizens were being airlifted back to the United States after the ship docked in the Canary Islands.
HHS reported that another passenger was showing symptoms of the virus. Both passengers are traveling in a plane’s biocontainment units “out of an abundance of caution,” HHS said in a social media post. June Social Security direct payment worth $994 goes out in 22 daysin the repatriation of 17 American citizens from the MV Hondius cruise ship affected by the Andes variant of hantavirus.
“One passenger currently has mild symptoms and another passenger tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus,” read a HHS“As of now, the airlift will transport passengers to the ASPR Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center/Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska before taking the passenger with mild symptoms to a second RESPTC at its final destination,” said HHS. “Upon arrival at each facility, each individual will undergo clinical assessment and receive appropriate care and support based on their condition.
” The hantavirus is a “severe and deadly disease that affects the lungs,” according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ita respiratory illness in humans called Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome. The virus spreads through contact with the urine, feces, or saliva of rodents, such as mice or rats. The primary concern for humans is the Andes strain, which is believed to be the only strain capable of being spread through human contact.
Sunday’s revelation of the U.S. citizen testing positive for the virus, and a second showing symptoms, are the first known cases of U.S. citizens on the ship having contracted the virus. Previously, seven Americans aboard the ship had already returned to the country, with none exhibiting symptoms or testing positive for the virus, the. Eight people aboard the cruise ship have been diagnosed with the virus, with three people dying from it so far.
Despite the recent developments of symptomatic U.S. citizens, the public health risk of the disease becoming widespread and evolving into a pandemic is considered low, according to health experts. Director of the National Institutes of Health and acting CDC Director Jay Bhattacharya said in an interview on Sunday on CNN’sBhattacharya to Tapper.
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