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Doctor from hantavirus-stricken ship tests negative, moves out of biocontainment unit
A doctor aboard the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius has tested negative for hantavirus and was moved out of a biocontainment unit in Nebraska. CNN confirms that Dr. Stephen Kornfeld, who had been described as faintly positive, is now negative and has exited biocontainment. ABC News quotes the doctor who initially tested positive saying he now tests negative and finds no evidence of hantavirus. PBS NewsHour notes that six ship passengers, including a doctor, have arrived in Australia for quarantine after testing negative in the Netherlands, with the group traveling by bus to a quarantine facility near Perth. The framing across outlets highlights a shift from positive/near-positive results to negative status among patients and travelers linked to the Hondius outbreak.
Concrete downstream impact noted includes ongoing quarantine for six passengers in Australia for at least three weeks, per PBS NewsHour, and the removal of a clinician from biocontainment following a negative test, per CNN and ABC News, signaling continued containment and monitoring of hantavirus-linked travel and care personnel.
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Doctor from hantavirus-stricken ship tests negative, moves out of biocontainment unit
Dr. Stephen Kornfeld, a passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship who had tested “faintly positive” for hantavirus, has now tested negative and been moved out of a Nebraska biocontainment unit. Kornfeld, 69, an Oregon oncologist, had helped care for ill passengers aboard the cruise ship and himself developed a.
Doctor from cruise ship who initially tested positive for hantavirus speaks out
"I physically feel great -- I have felt great for many, many days," he said. The American doctor who was on the MV Hondius cruise ship and initially tested positive for hantavirus has since tested negative and says "there's no evidence that I've had hantavirus." A doctor from the biocontainment unit in Nebraska said.
6 passengers from hantavirus-hit cruise ship arrive in Australia for 3-week quarantine
Rod McGuirk, Associated Press Rod McGuirk, Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Six passengers from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak arrived Friday in Australia for a quarantine expected to last at least three weeks. The Gulfstream long-range business jet carrying them from the Netherlands landed at.