Emory held a news conference Monday evening, just hours after receiving the two passengers.
ATLANTA — Health officials reiterated top priorities now that two passengers from the cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak are being monitored at Emory University Hospital.
Emory held a news conference Monday evening, just hours after receiving the two passengers. Dr. Aneesh Mehta, chief of Infectious Diseases Services at the hospital, explained how Emory’s Serious Communicable Diseases Unit became involved.
The same unit treated Ebola patients during an outbreak in 2014. Since then, he said, there are now 13 federally-designated
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