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Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius is anchored off the coast of the city of Praia on the island of Santiago, Cape Verde, on May 4, after three people died onboard from an acute respiratory syndrome.
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Simar Bajaj, Nina Agrawal
Mr Jordan Herbst was 14 years old when he came down with what he thought was the flu. After a few days of aches and chills, though, he started having trouble breathing. The doctors who first saw him in Bishop, California, suspected it was pneumonia. But his breathing quickly worsened and his lungs began to fail.
He was rushed by air to a larger hospital, where he was put on a machine that took over for his heart and lungs.
