5 Cruise Ship Passengers Leave Nebraska Facility to Complete Hantavirus Quarantine at Home

The Davis Global Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center campus, which holds the National Quarantine Unit in Omaha, Neb., on May 11, 2026. Dylan Widger/Getty Images

After three weeks in federal quarantine, five of 18 U.S. passengers on the MV Hondius cruise ship affected by a hantavirus outbreak are going home after remaining symptom-free and meeting criteria for monitoring outside the quarantine unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, U.S. health officials said on June 1.

None of the U.S. passengers has shown any symptoms, a spokesperson for Nebraska Medicine said.