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Two Americans Get Sick on Flight Home From Hantavirus Ship

Intimate Knowledge

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

3.5697 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

As 17 Americans arrived back to U.S. after being stranded on that hantavirus ship, 2 of them had to be transported in Biocontainment units after one tested positive and the other exhibited symptoms.  Meantime, a French woman got sick on the plane back home and this morning, has tested positive for the virus after her situation “deteriorated” overnight. The total number of confirmed or suspected cases now stands at 12.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.

0:05.9

Hey there, folks. It is Monday, May 11th, and they are here.

0:12.3

17 Americans who were aboard that stricken Honda virus cruise ship just landed back in the United States. two of them got sick on the flight home.

0:26.1

With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs, let's start with that.

0:30.8

17 Americans came back on a flight essentially chartered by the United States.

0:35.4

And on the way back, two got sick.

0:37.1

And one of them we know Robs at this point has the virus.

0:40.6

Yes, and I believe they were evaluated as displaying symptoms before they got on board that flight.

0:47.4

So those two actually were transported in the plane's biocontainment units.

0:53.9

And one of them, yes, tested positive.

0:55.7

The other one they suspect is positive is displaying symptoms.

0:59.7

So while everyone, this is a special plane that the United States brought these 17 passengers

1:05.2

back into this facility that they'll be at for a while in Nebraska.

1:09.4

But yes, those two passengers.

1:11.4

And by the way, before any of these flights came to repatriate all of these citizens aboard

1:17.6

this plane, the cruise ship was saying up until the very last moment, no one is displaying

1:22.6

symptoms.

1:23.5

And yet, here we are.

1:25.2

Here we are with the Americans.

1:27.0

And we also have a situation with the French. Okay. So let's get you all caught up. You've been watching the news over the weekend. Haanta virus ship was able to make it to the Canary Islands. And everybody was able to get off. They did them in small groups. They did it very carefully. But robes there were citizens from how many countries again? Twenty- Twenty-three, I believe. So they had to get everybody off just small

1:49.1

groups at a time. They essentially handed them back over to their own countries and they have to

1:54.2

follow their own protocols. So that's what happened. So now this plane of Americans took off. It

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