00:00The cruise ship at the center of the world's first deadly haintavirus outbreak at sea
00:04has finally docked, and American passengers are now being airlifted home in biocontainment units.
00:10The MV Hondias arrived at the port of Granadilla, near the Spanish island of Tenerife, on Sunday.
00:17Ninety-four passengers of nineteen nationalities were evacuated on day one alone, ferried ashore
00:23by boat. Wearing blue protective suits and masks, all seventeen American citizens on board
00:29are now on their way home. Two of them are traveling in the plane's biocontainment units
00:35out of an abundance of caution after one tested mildly positive for the Andes strain of Hantavirus.
00:41U.S. passengers are being flown to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska,
00:45where they will be transferred to the National Quarantine Center at the University of Nebraska.
00:51Three people have died since the outbreak began. Two died on the ship itself. A third died in
00:58Johannesburg after being airlifted off earlier. A French woman, who was also on board, has tested
01:04positive and is being treated in a specialist hospital. The Andes virus, the strain behind this
01:10outbreak, is the only known Hantavirus capable of spreading person to person. The WHO says the
01:16risk to the general public remains low. But for the families watching biocontainment planes land on
01:22American soil today, this is already a crisis no one expected.
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