A U.S. citizen who was a passenger aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship with a hantavirus outbreak has tested positive for the virus, the Department of Health and Human Services said 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 said 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.
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