Dr. Stephen Kornfeld Leaves Isolation After Negative Hantavirus Test, Joins 15 in Quarantine
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Updated · The New York Times · May 14
Dr. Stephen Kornfeld Leaves Isolation After Negative Hantavirus Test, Joins 15 in Quarantine
12 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 14
Nebraska Medicine moved Dr. Stephen Kornfeld from biocontainment to a quarantine unit after a U.S. test came back negative for hantavirus and he was medically cleared Wednesday.
Kornfeld had tested “mildly positive” earlier, but officials said only one of two pre-return tests indicated hantavirus and he never showed symptoms.
The 15-person quarantine group is part of 18 Americans flown Monday from the Canary Islands after exposure aboard the MV Hondius cruise from Argentina.
Two other Americans from that flight were sent to Emory’s biocontainment unit in Atlanta; the symptomatic passenger there also later tested negative.
The outbreak has been tied to the Andes subtype of hantavirus — the only form known to spread between people — after three fellow passengers died.
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