U.S. plans evacuation for Americans on cruise ship in hantavirus outbreak
The MV Hondius is currently traveling to the Canary Islands, where the 147 people on board will be methodically off-boarded and flown home.
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The MV Hondius is currently traveling to the Canary Islands, where the 147 people on board will be methodically off-boarded and flown home.
The Garden State residents were potentially exposed to a person infected with hantavirus on a cruise ship. CBS News New York's Alice Gainer reports.
American passengers who left the MV Hondius cruise ship in April are being monitored for hantavirus in at least five states, health officials said.
Five states and at least a dozen countries are monitoring passengers from a contaminated cruise ship. Doctor Adeel Butt - Infectious Disease Expert at Hackensack Meridian Health has more on this virus.
The New Jersey Department of Health said it was notified by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that the two New Jersey residents were potentially exposed while flying abroad.
A dozen countries and five U.S. states are monitoring people who got off the cruise ship that's been at the center of the deadly hantavirus outbreak.
The epicenter of the hantavirus outbreak, with five confirmed cases and three dead, is a luxury cruise ship. It's now en route to a controversial docking along Spain's Canary Islands. Tom Hanson reports.
Global health officials are tracking the hantavirus after three people died on a Dutch cruise ship, with five other cases suspected. CBS News New York's Dick Brennan reports.
Three passengers have been evacuated from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak, as related cases are confirmed in Switzerland and South Africa.
Two Georgia residents are being monitored after they recently returned home after disembarking from the MV Hondius, the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak that has raised concerns among global health officials. CBS News' Jarred Hill reports.
A hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship has killed three people and infected multiple others, officials said.
Health officials say they identified the rare strain on a Dutch woman who died in Johannesburg and in a British man still hospitalized. They both started feeling sick on the cruise ship stranded off the coast of Africa. CBS News' Jarred Hill reports.
Passengers aboard the ship are in good spirits but may have to quarantine for "eight weeks," a World Health Organization official told CBS News.
Health officials say they believe there was rare human-to-human transmission of the hantavirus on a cruise ship at the center of the outbreak, with three people now dead after coming down with the illness. CBS News' Jarred Hill reports.
The World Health Organization said it is helping the passengers from a cruise ship stranded. Three have died and three others are sick.
