4 states monitoring for hantavirus after deadly cruise ship outbreak

(NewsNation) — Four states are reportedly monitoring residents who have returned home from a cruise ship that suffered a viral outbreak that left at least three passengers dead and several others ill.

The World Health Organization says eight cases of the deadly hantavirus have been reported among passengers aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship. During a news briefing Thursday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “five of the eight cases have been confirmed as the hantavirus, and the other three are suspected.”

As of Wednesday, health officials in Georgia, California and Arizona have been monitoring residents who returned from the cruise, The New York Times reported. The Virginia Department of Health is also monitoring a resident who was aboard the ship, Newsweek reported Thursday.

The ship was carrying nearly 150 people, including 17 Americans, after sailing from Argentina toward Antarctica and then across the Atlantic Ocean. It remains docked off the coast of Cape Verde, an island off Africa’s west coast.

The Associated Press reports the........

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