90-Second Read: Hantavirus: Gov. Kemp says ‘nobody better’ to treat patients than Emory University Hospital staff

The Georgia Department of Public Health confirmed two passengers from M/V Hondius cruise ship with a Hantavirus outbreak are now in Atlanta. ATLANTA, The Georgia Department of Public Health confirmed two passengers from M/V Hondius cruise ship with a Hantavirus outbreak are now in Atlanta. The two patients, who are a couple, have been taken to Emory University Hospital. One symptomatic individual is receiving care in Emory's biocontainment unit, and one asymptomatic individual, identified as a close contact, is undergoing evaluation and monitoring," Emory officials said in a statement to Channel 2 Action News. Brian Kemp told Elliot that the state is ready to help though in whatever way it can.

There is nobody better to handle that than the folks at Emory. The University of Nebraska Medical Center is another and that is where the other 16 American passengers from the cruise ship are being monitored. The system kind of will absorb passengers as needed," Matthew Ferreira with the Department of Health and Human Services said at a news conference in Nebraska.

You think of how they dealt with folks who had Ebola that had been transported back here," Kemp told Elliot. We're going to help get these people back, get them in the right environment that doesn't put our fellow Georgians in jeopardy," the governor added. This is a system that exists for exactly this kind of scenario. And this is a very well rehearsed system that exists, and what you are seeing is that system work exactly as intended.