On Sunday, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu also announced that one of five French nationals removed from the ship developed symptoms during the flight home. | Manu Fernandez/AP
A passenger returning to the U.S. from a Dutch cruise ship where a hantavirus outbreak occurred has tested positive for the virus, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Sunday evening, while a second is showing mild symptoms.
The two passengers are traveling in the plane’s biocontainment units “out of an abundance of caution,” HHS wrote in a post on the social media website X.
The department is working in collaboration with other federal agencies to repatriate 17 American passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship — which docked Sunday in the Canary Islands, a Spanish territory off the coast of Morocco.Read Original Full, Details. .
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