90-Second Read: Hantavirus Scare Over? What We Know As Last Cruise Ship Passengers Leave Quarantine

There were 12 confirmed cases and one probable, across passengers and crew from 23 nationalities. A type of Hantavirus which is the only strain of Hantavirus known to spread from human to human. The WHO chief confirmed this week that nearly all passengers and crew quarantined in the Netherlands have been cleared to leave.

Six weeks, 13 cases, three dead, and one Florida woman who said she was being 'held hostage', here is what actually happened aboard the MV Hondius. Passengers across Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and South Africa entered their own arrangements. Twelve of the 18 Americans eventually left the Nebraska facility mid-quarantine, under strict conditions, no grocery runs, no takeout, and in several states, a monitor posted outside their homes around the clock.

A separate group of Americans who had disembarked the Hondius earlier, before the outbreak was even identified, completed a 42-day monitoring period that ended on 6 June. The remote British island of some 4,400 people, where early cases had come ashore, declared its major incident over. That single biological fact is what turned a remote maritime medical emergency into an international public health response spanning at least a dozen countries.