A hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius has killed three people, with an American oncologist passenger now isolated in a biocontainment unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center after testing weakly positive for the virus. The doctor, who assumed coordination of the medical response after the ship's physician became ill, described the symptoms and uncertainty passengers experienced during the outbreak.

Seventeen currently healthy Americans from a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship operating in the Canary Islands will be transported to the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha for monitoring and isolation at the facility's National Quarantine Unit, the only federally funded unit of its kind designed for safe isolation of infectious disease cases.