Two people believed to have been exposed to hantavirus arrived in Atlanta on Monday and were taken to Emory University Hospital after being transported through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, federal health officials confirmed.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the patients were part of a coordinated federal repatriation effort involving American citizens who were exposed aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship, where an outbreak of the Andes variant of hantavirus has prompted international medical response measures.
In a statement released by the Georgia Department of Public Health, state officials said they had been notified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that the two individuals who disembarked the ship at the center of the hantavirus outbreak were transported to Emory University’s Serious Communicable Diseases Unit…