90-Second Read: Mapping the Hantavirus outbreak as cruise ship passengers return to US

A total of 94 passengers of 19 nationalities were evacuated from the ship on May 10, the first day of evacuations, Spanish Health Minister Mónica García said at a news conference. Health officials in the Trump administration said the Hantavirus situation was under control. The MV Hondius set sail for the Netherlands on the night of May 11 after evacuating passengers from nearly two dozen countries, officials reported.

One of them was experiencing Hantavirus symptoms but tested negative for the virus. As of May 13, a total of 11 cases, including three deaths, have been reported. Passengers were taken from the ship to shore in small boats and transported to Tenerife airport in military buses, without coming into contact with the public, according to Reuters.

The latest case was reported by France and involved a passenger who disembarked the ship one day earlier, Olivier le Polain, unit head of epidemiology and analytics for response with the WHO, said. Still, the outbreak is a warning sign of what's to come with zoonotic diseases that move from animals to people, public health experts say. Sixteen of those passengers were sequestered at the National Quarantine Center at the University of Nebraska.