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We begin this morning here in Omaha, where passengers from a cruise ship at the center of a deadly Hantavirus outbreak have landed, touching down just hours ago and headed into a high security quarantine unit
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You're looking here at video of the plane arriving earlier this morning at Epley Airfield in Omaha, a convoy of police and medical vehicles then bringing those passengers to Nebraska Medicine
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I headed there yesterday and was able to get video you see right here and pictures of the hospital where they will now be monitored and possibly treated
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Things were pretty calm on the hospital campus before the big arrival
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The patients are being taken and watched at the National Quarantine Unit, the only federally funded unit of its kind in the country
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If anyone develops symptoms of Hantavirus, they can be moved immediately to the biocontainment unit in the same building for treatment
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This is a look inside at the rooms where they will be staying. Seventeen Americans and one British national who lives in the United States were evacuated from the MV Hondias
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which docked in the Canary Islands on Sunday. So far, one American has tested positive
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Another is showing symptoms. A French passenger from that same cruise ship has also tested positive
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Health officials say the virus is usually linked to rodents. But in this case, the World Health Organization believes it likely spread person to person
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on board. Since the outbreak started in mid-April, three people from the ship have died
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and several others have been infected
