90-Second Read: 6 Hantavirus cases confirmed as cruise passengers await disembarking

Planes will evacuate citizens from multiple countries aboard the Tenerife, Spain-bound cruise ship hit by a deadly Hantavirus outbreak, where six cases have been confirmed as the Andes strain of Hantavirus. After the boat docks, she explained, there will be a small boat that will bring the passengers in groups to the dock for medical screening. Residents of multiple countries, including the United States, are being monitored after disembarking from the Hondius. The MV Hondius is set to anchor near Tenerife at 0300-0500 GMT on Sunday, or 10 p.m. For those who are healthy, those who are doing well, they will go to individual planes that are being organized by countries.

Three people have died in connection with the outbreak. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he will personally help oversee the ship's disembarkation. The silence that we're seeing from our premier public health institution is really concerning to me." Contributing: Reuters ; Eve Chen, Natalie Neysa Alund, Jeanine Santucci and Melina Khan, USA TODAY Those planes will take those individuals back to home countries." Spain's interior minister said on Saturday that planes will come from Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands as well as two from the European Union for any remaining European citizens. A lot of the things that you would like to see, we haven't seen, and to me, that's very concerning," Dr.

Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO's acting director of epidemic and pandemic management, explained the plan for the next 24 to 48 hours. If there's anybody that develops symptoms, anybody that has symptoms, they will immediately go to a medical evacuation plane and be taken to the Netherlands for care. At this time, the risk to the American public remains extremely low. In a post to social media on May 9, the director-general shared he arrived in Spain.

Carlos del Rio, a professor at Emory University School of Medicine, said in the briefing.