90-Second Read: American evacuated from cruise ship tests positive for Hantavirus, another has symptoms, HHS confirms

Department of Health and Human Services, and another person had mild symptoms. Seventeen Americans who had been on board a cruise ship with a Hantavirus outbreak arrived early Monday, May 11, 2026, at a hospital facility in Omaha, Nebraska. The passenger who is going to the Biocontainment Unit tested positive for the virus but does not have symptoms.

Passengers wore personal protective equipment (PPE), as they disembarked from the MV Hondius cruise ship off Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands on Sunday. That dual national "is at the University of Nebraska Medical Center/Nebraska Medicine Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center (RESPTC) in Omaha with 15 of the other repatriated passengers," HHS noted in the post. The woman developed symptoms while flying to Paris, Rist informed public broadcaster France-Inter.

Andes virus is a type of Hantavirus spread by rodents in South America and, less commonly, by other infected people. This aerial picture shows the cruise ship MV Hondius off the port of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, on May 4, 2026. The outlet reported that the individual was one of five from France aboard the vessel who were repatriated Sunday.