HHS defends holding hantavirus cruise ship passenger in quarantine

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The Department of Health and Human Services is defending a decision to continue holding a passenger from the cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak in a federal quarantine unit in Nebraska.

An HHS spokeswoman says Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is refusing to let Angela Perryman finish her 42-day quarantine at home because the state of Florida will not post a guard outside her ho…

The Department of Health and Human Services is defending a decision to continue holding a passenger from the cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak in a federal quarantine unit in Nebraska.

An HHS spokeswoman says Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is refusing to let Angela Perryman finish her 42-day quarantine at home because the state of Florida will not post a guard outside her ho…

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