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Nebraska Medicine said experts are prepared to bring cruise ship passengers to the quarantine unit to monitor them for hantavirus.The University of Nebraska Medical Center, as well as Nebraska Medicine, will receive and monitor American citizens on the cruise ship impacted by the hantavirus outbreak.Officials said they are expecting 17 people from the MV Hondius.READ MORE: CDC teams will meet Americans on hantavirus-stricken ship at Nebraska quarantine unit and in Canary IslandsAs of right now, officials said the cruise ship will arrive at the Canary Islands on Sunday, but it’s unknown when the American passengers will make their way to Omaha.They said the moment they heard about the infectious disease outbreak on the cruise ship last weekend they were immediately in close contact with federal, state and local officials about what they can do to help.”Our people are well-trained. We have policies and procedures in place that really standardize our processes and the most important thing is these are volunteers who volunteer their services and who are trained on a quarterly basis for all our procedures to provide safe care. Comfortable for people in the unit and safe for our personnel,” Dr. Michael Wadman, medical director of National Quarantine Unit, said.What we know: Nebraska Medicine will quarantine American citizens on hantavirus cruise shipAll of them are healthy right now, but the passengers will be monitored for about a week, during the virus’s incubation period.”The individuals we are planning on receiving have not been diagnosed with hantavirus. They are asymptomatic. As far as we know, they have no specific symptoms that would leave us to being concerned to being infected with hantavirus. They were on the ship, they were potentially exposed, but not known to be infected with hantavirus,” Dr. Angela Hewlett, medical director of Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, said.Officials said Nebraska Medicine and UNMC are working with the Douglas County Health Department, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services and federal health officials to coordinate the effort.See the full new conference in the video below:Make sure you can always see the latest news, weather, sports and more from KETV NewsWatch 7 on Google search.NAVIGATE: Home | Weather | Local News | National | Sports | Newscasts on demand |
Nebraska Medicine said experts are prepared to bring cruise ship passengers to the quarantine unit to monitor them for hantavirus.
The University of Nebraska Medical Center, as well as Nebraska Medicine, will receive and monitor American citizens on the cruise ship impacted by the hantavirus outbreak.
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Officials said they are expecting 17 people from the MV Hondius.
As of right now, officials said the cruise ship will arrive at the Canary Islands on Sunday, but it’s unknown when the American passengers will make their way to Omaha.
They said the moment they heard about the infectious disease outbreak on the cruise ship last weekend they were immediately in close contact with federal, state and local officials about what they can do to help.
“Our people are well-trained. We have policies and procedures in place that really standardize our processes and the most important thing is these are volunteers who volunteer their services and who are trained on a quarterly basis for all our procedures to provide safe care. Comfortable for people in the unit and safe for our personnel,” Dr. Michael Wadman, medical director of National Quarantine Unit, said.
What we know: Nebraska Medicine will quarantine American citizens on hantavirus cruise ship
All of them are healthy right now, but the passengers will be monitored for about a week, during the virus’s incubation period.
“The individuals we are planning on receiving have not been diagnosed with hantavirus. They are asymptomatic. As far as we know, they have no specific symptoms that would leave us to being concerned to being infected with hantavirus. They were on the ship, they were potentially exposed, but not known to be infected with hantavirus,” Dr. Angela Hewlett, medical director of Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, said.
Officials said Nebraska Medicine and UNMC are working with the Douglas County Health Department, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services and federal health officials to coordinate the effort.
See the full new conference in the video below:
Make sure you can always see the latest news, weather, sports and more from KETV NewsWatch 7 on Google search.
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