"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, Bhattacharya said."
"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, he added, 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."
"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 medic"
Seventeen Americans on the M/V Hondius were repatriated to the United States after the ship docked in Tenerife and all passengers were evacuated. The passengers arrived in Spain and were interviewed by US CDC medical teams about their exposure on the cruise. Their identities were not publicly disclosed, and they had not tested positive for hantavirus. A special charter flight was planned to bring them to Nebraska, which includes national quarantine and biocontainment units. After arrival in Omaha, CDC staff would interview passengers and assess risk based on whether they had close contact with symptomatic individuals. Low-risk passengers would be deemed low risk, while close contact would lead to medium or high risk and alternative options, including staying in Nebraska or safely flying home under state and local public health oversight with CDC support. CDC leadership emphasized that hantavirus is not Covid-19 and should be managed using established hantavirus protocols to avoid public panic.
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