What’s happening with the quarantined hantavirus cruise passengers
More than a dozen asymptomatic passengers from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship will remain in isolation in Nebraska's National Quarantine Unit for at least the next few days, where officials say they are in "good shape" and called the facility "more like a hotel than patient care space.” Key facts - Eighteen people ranging in age from late 20s to early 80s were flown via State Department plane from the Canary Islands to the University of Nebraska Medical Center, home to the country’s only federally funded quarantine facility, Sunday night. - One of those patients, who has been described as “mildly positive” is in the facility’s biocontainment unit and two others, one who is showing mild symptoms, have since been transferred to Atlanta for care and monitoring at Emory University. - The 15 others are in "good spirits" in the National Quarantine Unit, the facility's medical director Michael Wadman said Monday, and will undergo health assessments for the next several days before being assigned individual monitoring…
11 May 00:00 · Inlandnewstoday