There are currently no hantavirus cases in the United States, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on May 15.
“There are no hantavirus cases in the United States currently, and I will emphasize that the risk to the general public remains extremely low,” Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, head of the National Institutes of Health and acting director of the CDC, told reporters on a call.
Dozens of U.S. residents are in quarantine at medical facilities, or being monitored at home, because they were on a cruise ship on which a hantavirus outbreak occurred, or came into contact with people who had hantavirus….