{"id":635080,"date":"2026-05-10T17:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/635080\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T17:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:02:15","slug":"live-updates-hantavirus-outbreak-passengers-disembark-cruise-ship-in-tenerife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/635080\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Hantavirus outbreak, passengers disembark cruise ship in Tenerife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/12336603-90661501-generated-thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"clipped thumbnail - hantavirus-interview-americans-nebraska-intldsk - CNN ID 22611655 - 00:00:21;03\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1080\" width=\"1920\"\/><\/p>\n<p>What awaits the American passengers who disembark hantavirus-hit cruise ship\n                <\/p>\n<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778432535_992_12336603-90661501-generated-thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"clipped thumbnail - hantavirus-interview-americans-nebraska-intldsk - CNN ID 22611655 - 00:00:21;03\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1080\" width=\"1920\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>What awaits the American passengers who disembark hantavirus-hit cruise ship<\/p>\n<p>        0:32<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmozomq7600093b6r945ozd2c@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The Nebraska medical center where US passengers on the hantavirus-hit cruise ship will be taken to and monitored is the only one of its kind, the interim chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center told CNN.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmozoordc000b3b6rp10psucd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The center is the only nationally-designated facility for such monitoring purposes. It is specially designed with \u201cnegative pressure rooms,\u201d which ensure that any kind of deadly disease is contained within, Dr. H. Dele Davis said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmozpsn4v000g3b6rlh41z25t@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            It also has controls that allow for the filtering of any air that leaves the rooms, which are designed like hotel rooms, complete with exercise equipment as well as room service, monitors and WiFi, Dr. Davis said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmozorp06000e3b6rupnbjxq5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            On arrival, the passengers will be checked for any symptoms signalling the early stages of the virus, such as fever,  muscle aches and diarrhoea, he added.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmozovt8t000f3b6rrh9j175a@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            If any of the patients do start to exhibit symptoms, the center has a host of medical workers ready as well as a bio-containment unit where patients with Covid and Ebola have previously been held.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmozoy83u000g3b6rzojouhpw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Asked about the risk to the wider US public as the cruise ship passengers are set to return, Dr. Davis said it was low.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"pull-quote_block-quote__text  vossi-pull-quote_block-quote__text inline-placeholder\" data-editable=\"text\">\n                    \u201cThe hantavirus is one that is not easy to get, you have to be in fairly close contact with someone who has developed the symptoms\u2026 so the risk of transmission is low,\u201d he said.\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmozp1asx000j3b6ryiutb27l@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            However, he added, \u201cIf you do get it, then the disease itself can be very highly deadly.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What awaits the American passengers who disembark hantavirus-hit cruise ship What awaits the American passengers who disembark hantavirus-hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-635080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}