Posted on 05/09/2026 4:56:43 AM PDT by Libloather
The US government is moving to evacuate American passengers from a cruise ship linked to a deadly hantavirus outbreak, with plans to transport them to a military base in Nebraska for quarantine and monitoring, federal health officials said Friday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the risk to the American public remains extremely low as officials move forward with a medical repatriation flight for passengers aboard the M/V Hondius.
President Trump said earlier Friday that the situation appears to be under control, pointing to the virus being difficult to transmit.
“We have very good people looking at it. It seems to be okay. They know the virus very well. They’ve worked with it for a long time. They know it very well. Not easy to pass on. So we hope that’s true,” he said.
“We seem to have things under very good control. They know that virus very well. It’s been around a long time. Not easily transferable, unlike COVID. But we’ll see. We have very good people studying it very closely.”
The outbreak has escalated over several weeks, beginning with a passenger who became sick in early April and later resulting in at least three deaths, according to the World Health Organization.
Cases are now reported across multiple countries after passengers disembarked in Africa and Europe, prompting health officials to trace contacts globally.
Authorities in Cape Verde at one point blocked passengers from leaving the ship, underscoring concerns about containment.
Hantavirus is a rare but potentially deadly disease typically spread through contact with infected rodents or their droppings, according to the CDC.
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Never have and never will go on a cruise ship
Man, they really hate the Midwest.
Should put them in homeless encampments, Somali Day Cares, Congress, etc.
Wait Wait wait… They are going to Quarantine the infected, and not the other way around?
What Wizardry is this??
Right? Common sense and history prove it’s the well people that need to be quarantined and masked up.... otherwise it’s racist...or something
They will then be transported to the National Quarantine Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center for further monitoring.
Only American citizens will make the move to Offutt AFB.
Why does Trump hate Omaha? :)
See my links on this thread...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4378431/posts
Looks to me like there are two very good reasons for a quarantine this time around.
And...
Per AI and, if accurate, jeez louise...
“Currently, there are no specific, widely approved blood screening tests for Andes virus, but its presence in the blood during acute, often non-specific, early infection underscores the potential risk to blood safety in affected regions. National Institutes of Health (.gov) +1”
“The US government is moving to evacuate American passengers from a cruise ship linked to a deadly hantavirus outbreak, with plans to transport them to a military base in Nebraska for quarantine and monitoring, federal health officials said Friday.” I would think Nebraska corn farmers wouldn’t be all that thrilled.
Right, bring them here to quarantine so people in this country can be infected and you can create another hysteria leading to lock downs before the mid-terms.
They are to be quarantined, not running around farm country. They will probably put the personnel doing the transporting in hazmat suits; at least I hope they do.
‘Patient Zero’ in deadly hantavirus cruise ship outbreak was Dutch ornithologist Leo Schilperoord
WTF? ... totally insane to bring folks likely infected with the only human-to-human transmissible hantavirus strain in the world to the continental USA ... sounds like an Obama move ... why not quarantine them on USA territory on some island?
Johhston Island, Midway Island, numerous former USN atolls, South Sandwich Islands, all good quarantine Islands.
“Man, they really hate the Midwest.”
I was just thinking, why bring them to the center of the country?!?!
They should let Bill Gates visit with them personally.
Biden would never have allowed this discrimination.
Quarantine them in Manhattan. Nebraska is good oeople.
Get the Americans off the cruise ship and then nuke it. :)
Perhaps J.K. would have been better than :)
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