American passengers from hantavirus-hit cruise ship arrive back in the U.S.

The 17 Americans who were aboard the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship Hondius have now arrived home in the United States

The 17 Americans who were aboard the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship Hondius have now arrived home in the United States.

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A State Department plane carrying them landed at Omaha Eppley Airfield in Nebraska at about 2:30 a.m. ET Monday, and the passengers were due to be assessed and monitored at a nearby medical center.

Two Americans traveled in the plane’s biocontainment units “out of an abundance of caution,” the Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.