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Five people leave hantavirus quarantine in US state of Nebraska
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The five were among a group of Americans on a cruise ship that became the centre of a global hantavirus outbreak in May.
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Jacey Fortin
WASHINGTON - Five Americans who had been quarantining at a medical facility in the US city of Omaha, Nebraska, for possible hantavirus exposure returned to their home states on June 1, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services.
They have been placed under constant monitoring. That was a condition that federal officials had put in place before anyone was allowed to leave the facility, the National Quarantine Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Centre.
