Two Hantavirus Cruise Patients Reach Emory Hospital as Georgia Says Public Faces 0 Risk
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Updated · 11Alive.com WXIA · May 11
Two Hantavirus Cruise Patients Reach Emory Hospital as Georgia Says Public Faces 0 Risk
14 articles · Updated · 11Alive.com WXIA · May 11
Two passengers from the hantavirus-hit MV Hondius were flown into Atlanta on Monday and taken by medical convoy to Emory University Hospital’s Serious Communicable Diseases Unit for evaluation.
Nebraska officials said the pair are a couple and one is symptomatic; they were sent to Atlanta from a larger U.S. transfer flight because of treatment capacity needs.
Georgia health officials said CDC notified the state about the transfer, federal healthcare workers used full protective measures, and there is no risk to the public at this time.
Two other Georgia residents who had already returned from the cruise are still asymptomatic and under monitoring as authorities track the outbreak linked to the ship’s stop in the Canary Islands.
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