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U.S. health officials
Coverage of U.S. health officials in the Nexus archive.
- 5 American cruise ship passengers leave Nebraska quarantine facility
Five of 18 American cruise ship passengers quarantined in Nebraska due to hantavirus exposure have been released after remaining symptom-free and meeting monitoring criteria. The passengers were among those exposed to the Andes strain of hantavirus on a cruise ship, with 13 confirmed cases and three deaths linked to the outbreak, though no U.S. cases have been confirmed.