CDC monitors 41 people for hantavirus exposure
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There are no confirmed cases in the United States following a deadly outbreak on a cruise ship that included American passengers.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a Health Alert Network Health Advisory May 8 notifying clinicians and health departments of the potential for imported cases of hantavirus disease,
The CDC said the risk to the general public from hantavirus remains low.
As a deadly hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship Hondius generated a surge of global headlines for the past week, public health experts noticed one organization was oddly quiet: the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.