The U.S. passengers disembarked from the MV Hondius on May 10 after the ship was anchored near Tenerife, in Spain's Canary Islands.

American passengers from the cruise ship at the center of the hantavirus outbreak are heading home, stopping first in Nebraska, home of the highly specialized National Quarantine Unit.

The "risk of hantavirus to the general public remains very, very low," Dr. Brian Christine, Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services, said at a news conference on Monday.

Here you can follow the journey of the cruise ship MV Hondius from Cabo Verde to the Canary Islands, where it will anchor and begin the process of extracting the infected and passengers. View on euron

The World Health Organization chief says he expects more cases to emerge among passengers, but virus is ‘not another Covid’ and risk to the public remains low.

DMV officials are monitoring the Hantavirus outbreak for local cases, warning that the risk for spread in this area is low.