Omaha’s UNMC to quarantine, monitor 17 Americans from cruise ship hit by hantavirus

By: Cindy Gonzalez

Outlets: Nebraska Examiner

Published: May 9, 2026

Words: 595

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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OMAHA — A group of 17 currently healthy Americans from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship in the Canary Islands soon will be monitored at the Omaha-based University of Nebraska Medical Center.

The passengers will be isolated in the campus’ National Quarantine Unit — which UNMC said is the only federally funded unit designed specifically to safely house and observe people who may have been exposed to high-consequence infectious diseases.

A local medical team spoke at a …

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