One passenger currently has “mild symptoms” and another tested “mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus,” HHS said in a statement Sunday.
WASHINGTON — Two of the 17 American citizens who were aboard the hantavirus-hit cruise ship are being flown back to the United States in biocontainment units “out of an abundance of caution,” the Department of Health and Human Services said Sunday.
“One passenger currently has mild symptoms and another passenger tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus,” HHS said in a statement posted to X.
All 17 passengers are being flown to the
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