Passengers rescued after tanker hit river cruise in New Orleans
A tanker struck a river cruise ship on the Mississippi River near the Port of New Orleans Friday, partially submerging the passenger boat.
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A tanker struck a river cruise ship on the Mississippi River near the Port of New Orleans Friday, partially submerging the passenger boat.
An American on the repatriation flight began showing symptoms of hantavirus and another "tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus," the Department of Health and Human Services says.
The MV Hondius is currently traveling to the Canary Islands, where the 147 people on board will be methodically off-boarded and flown home.
Three passengers have been evacuated from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak, as related cases are confirmed in Switzerland and South Africa.
Passengers aboard the ship are in good spirits but may have to quarantine for "eight weeks," a World Health Organization official told CBS News.
Anna Kepner, 18, was on a Caribbean cruise with her father, stepmother and three stepsiblings when she was discovered dead on the Carnival Horizon in November.
A cruise passenger captured video of chaos aboard Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas after a water slide panel shattered, injuring a guest.
The 28-year-old from Lafayette, Alabama, was with 18 relatives on a Carnival cruise to Cozumel, Mexico, when somehow he ended up overboard after a day of fun.
"We didn't know if we should get our gear ready for abandoning ship," one passenger told a local TV station.
The man was last seen on board the ship on Wednesday night and was reported missing Thursday morning.
