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International Business Times UK
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Anna Katrina Sevilla

CDC Faces Questions After Refusing Home Quarantine for Exposed Hantavirus Cruise Passengers

CDC Faces Questions After Refusing Home Quarantine for Exposed Hantavirus Cruise Passengers (Credit: Fusion Medical Animation/Unsplash)

The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is under fire after officials declined to require mandatory home quarantine for some Americans exposed to a hantavirus outbreak linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius.

The outbreak, which has already been tied to multiple deaths overseas, involved the Andes virus strain, a rare form of hantavirus capable of limited person-to-person transmission.

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