90-Second Read: Hantavirus outbreak: Hochul says 3 passengers on virus-infected ship are from New York

On Monday, 16 American cruise ship passengers arrived at the University of Nebraska Medical Center where 15 are in the quarantine unit and one person is in the biocontainment unit, officials said. The news comes days after officials in New Jersey announced that they are monitoring two Garden State residents after they were potentially exposed to a person infected with Hantavirus after the person departed the MV Hondius cruise ship. The Andes strain of the Hantavirus can spread human to human and there is no vaccine nor cure.

The governor said she doesn't know whether those individuals will return to New York to quarantine. Hochul said the state is monitoring the situation, but "it's transmitted very differently than the coronavirus, there's no panic, no concern." The governor said she is still putting together a plan to be proactive. Those two people were not passengers on the cruise ship and officials say the potential exposure happened during air travel abroad.

Officials say they traveled on the same plane with the person who was on the ship. Three people have died from the outbreak tied to the ship. The CDC maintains that the risk to the general public is low.