60 Minutes · Where the hantavirus cruise ship outbreak stands as health officials monitor 18 Americans

1. 1. Eighteen Americans from a cruise ship are quarantined for hantavirus, with one confirmed positive case.
2. 2. There are no FDA-approved treatments for hantavirus, so patient care remains solely supportive.
3. 3. Hantavirus transmission differs from COVID-19; it doesn't spread easily airborne or asymptomatically.
4. 4. The US public health response infrastructure is significantly weaker than it was in 2020.
5. 5. The 2018 Epuen outbreak showed human-to-human hantavirus transmission occurred through close, prolonged contact.