- A hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius ocean expedition vessel has led to three deaths and eight people falling ill.
- Eighteen American passengers from the affected cruise ship have returned to the US and are currently in quarantine.
- One of the returning American passengers has tested positive for the rodent-borne hantavirus.
- Sixteen of the Americans are isolated in a specialist quarantine unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, with two others monitored at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
- Public health officials report that the quarantined individuals are in 'good shape' and mostly asymptomatic, despite one confirmed positive case.
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