{"id":227440,"date":"2026-05-11T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227440\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:28:08","slug":"new-york-city-orange-and-westchester-county-residents-face-42-day-monitoring-for-hantavirus-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227440\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City, Orange and Westchester County Residents Face 42-Day Monitoring for Hantavirus | Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ALBANY, N.Y. — Three New York residents who were passengers on the MV Hondius cruise ship with a hantavirus outbreak have arrived at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska.<\/p>\n

According to a statement from New York State Department of Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald, one passenger is from New York City and the other two are from Orange and Westchester counties.<\/p>\n

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Despite a cruise ship outbreak of a rare rodent-borne illness, global health officials say the risk to the general public remains low because hantavirus germs do not easily spread between people.<\/p>\n

All three are expected to be monitored for 42 days.<\/p>\n

McDonald said the department is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local health departments to gather more information.<\/p>\n

It is not yet clear how long the residents will remain in Nebraska or when they might return to New York.<\/p>\n

McDonald said, \u201cAt this point, it is important to emphasize that there is no immediate risk to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

The department will continue to monitor the situation and provide updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP ALBANY, N.Y. — Three New York residents who were passengers on the MV Hondius cruise ship with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[86145,89330,58612,9,24,55,54,89329,56,81331,779,1628],"class_list":["post-227440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-hantavirus","tag-monitoring","tag-nebraska","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-residents","tag-ny","tag-offutt-air-force-base","tag-orange-county","tag-westchester-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}