CDC deploys team to evacuate Americans aboard hantavirus-plagued ship

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sending a team to the Canary Islands, Spain, to escort the remaining Americans aboard the cruise ship with the hantavirus outbreak back to the United States, where they will be transferred to a federal quarantine facility in Nebraska.

About 17 Americans remain aboard the MV Hondius. Once they arrive in the U.S., they are expected to be taken to the National Quarantine Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

"Nebraska Medicine and UNMC remain in close coordination with national partners regarding the evolving situation with the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship," Nebraska Medicine said in a statement...