Forty-one people are under monitoring in the United States for hantavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on May 14.
Most of those being monitored were at one time on board the MV Hondius, a cruise ship that experienced an outbreak of the disease after it sailed from Argentina on April 1 to remote locations such as Antarctica.
Eighteen people were flown from the ship recently to medical facilities in Nebraska and Georgia for quarantining during the incubation period for the virus, which is up to 42 days.
Some other individuals left the ship before the hantavirus outbreak was detected and are at home in states such as Arizona and California….