Americans from Hantavirus Cruise Ship Return
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
CNN
3.2 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happening now, breaking news, Americans from the Hanta virus hit cruise ship are in Nebraska this morning. |
| 0:07.0 | One tested positive. We're expecting to get an update from officials any moment now. |
| 0:12.0 | And Dr. Deborah Birx, the former response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, is live in the situation room. And happening now, negotiations stalled. |
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| 0:29.8 | and I'm quoting him now, totally unacceptable. We're alive at the White House. And the suspected |
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| 0:38.1 | federal judge as his attorneys move to disqualify top U.S. Justice Department officials |
| 0:43.7 | from the case. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm |
| 0:49.5 | Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown and you're in the situation room. |
| 1:02.9 | This is CNN breaking news. |
| 1:05.0 | We begin with the breaking news at any moment. |
| 1:09.2 | We'll hear directly from the federal health officials who are in Omaha, Nebraska. |
| 1:12.2 | That's where 17 Americans returned to the U.S. |
| 1:18.5 | overnight after being evacuated from the cruise ship that was struck by a deadly outbreak of the Hanta virus. Three people aboard that ship, the M.V. Hondias have died and several others are sick. |
| 1:25.5 | Minutes ago, a French woman was confirmed as the seventh person to test positive. |
| 1:30.3 | At least one American passenger has tested mildly positive for the deadly virus, |
| 1:35.3 | and another has shown mild symptoms, but is still testing negative. |
| 1:40.3 | All of the Americans are now in Omaha. |
| 1:42.3 | They're being assessed and monitored at a highly specialized quarantine unit. |
| 1:48.0 | Let's go live right now to see it as Meg Terrell, who's watching all of this unfold for us. |
| 1:53.0 | Big developments, Meg, update our viewers. |
| 1:56.0 | Yeah, Wolf, so we know that those 17 Americans were flown back overnight. |
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