The 17 Americans onboard the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship M/V Hondius, including one person who has tested positive, have disembarked the vessel after it docked in Tenerife on Sunday and are being repatriated to the US.
Upon their arrival in Spain, medical teams from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awaited and interviewed the passengers, whose identities have not been publicly disclosed and who have not tested positive for the virus, about their exposure on the cruise.
The passengers are due to arrive in Nebraska on a special chartered flight, the authorities said. Nebraska is home to the national quarantine unit and the Nebraska biocontainment unit.
Of the 17 Americans being repatriated, one had mild symptoms of hantavirus and another had tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes strain of the virus, the US health and human services department (HHS) confirmed on Sunday night.
Those two passengers were travelling in the plane’s biocontainment units, it added.
The US state department’s airlift would transport passengers to the ASPR regional emerging special pathogen treatment center (RESPTC) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, and the passenger with mild symptoms would be taken to a second RESPTC, the HHS said.
Describing the process after the Americans’ arrival at Omaha, the acting CDC director, Jay Bhattacharya, told CNN on Sunday: “We’re going to interview them and assess them for risk.
“If they weren’t in close contact with someone who was symptomatic, then we’re going to deem them low risk. If they were in close contact, we’re going to deem them medium or high risk. At that point, we will offer them alternatives.”
Those will include “an offer to stay in Nebraska if they like, or if they want, to go back home and [if] their home situation allows it, to safely fly them home without exposing other people on the way”, Bhattacharya said, noting that the passengers who choose to go back home will be put under the “auspices of their state and local public health agencies, with the CDC support all the way”.
Addressing concerns over the hantavirus being compared to the Covid-19 pandemic, Bhattacharya said: “This is not Covid … and we don’t want to … cause a public panic over this. We want to treat it with the hantavirus protocols that … were successful in containing outbreaks in the past.”
Bhattacharya continued: “We followed those protocols … This health alert is coming out, because, again, there’s this discrete event of the 17 arriving in the United States very, very soon and so we just want to make sure that the medical community understands this.”
On Friday, the CDC issued a health alert for clinicians and health departments which included guidance for providers and outlined symptoms associated with hantavirus exposure.
On Saturday, a CDC official told reporters on a call: “We are not quarantining anybody,” according to ABC, adding that “It is not recommended to test people that do not have symptoms.”
In response to the US’s decision to not carry out a mandatory quarantine, World Health Organization head Tedros Ghebreyesus told reporters: “Our advice is clear. Starting from May 10, [we recommend] 42 days with active follow up, 42 days of quarantine but it could be in a facility or at home.”
“We advise them, we don’t impose laws,” he added.
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