90-Second Read: Cruise ship passenger making best of quarantine in US after Hantavirus outbreak

15 passengers currently under observation in the National Quarantine Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha after a Hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship. Now, he is one of 18 Americans under observation at specialized healthcare facilities designed to treat people with dangerous infectious diseases after three people died and others were sickened by a Hantavirus outbreak aboard the ship. Public health officials have said the risk of the virus spreading from passengers into the general public is very low and that healthy people are being quarantined as a precaution. When Jake Rosmarin boarded the MV Hondius, he gleefully posted on social media that the ship would be home for 35 days as he and more than 100 other passengers and crew were to travel across the.

But the Andes virus detected in the cruise ship outbreak may be able to spread between people in rare cases. The last remaining passengers on the ship disembarked Monday and boarded flights to more than 20 countries to enter quarantine. Once people began to get sick on the ship, passengers were also advised to stay in their cabins as much as possible. I left the cabin about 15 minutes each day to refill my water, get fresh air and grab food for breakfast and lunch," he said, adding that passengers practiced social distancing and masked up. Rosmarin began traveling the world in 2022 after quitting his job as a media buyer.

Rosmarin, 30, said he expects to spend 42 days at the National Quarantine Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. Hantavirus usually spreads from rodent droppings and is not easily transmitted between people. Symptoms usually show between one and eight weeks after exposure. Three people on the cruise died, including a Dutch couple that health officials believe were the first exposed to the virus while visiting South America. Nebraska Medicine's Davis Global Center is seen on Sunday, May 10,2026 in Omaha, Neb.

Since passengers and crew would be disembarking on islands, some with fragile ecosystems, biosecurity measures were in place, he said. We didn't really know it was the Hantavirus until the night we were supposed to disembark. Gratz) Nebraska Medicine's Davis Global Center is seen on Sunday, May 10,2026 in Omaha, Neb. Gratz) When Jake Rosmarin boarded the MV Hondius, he gleefully posted on social media that the ship would be his home for 35 days as he traveled across the South Atlantic. The quarantine and biocontainment units in Omaha are specialized facilities created to monitor people exposed to serious illnesses.