Workouts, TV and Hantavirus Tests: Inside the US Quarantine Unit
The Davis Global Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center campus, which holds the National Quarantine Unit, in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 11.
Photographer: Dylan Widger/Getty ImagesFifteen US citizens exposed to hantavirus on the Hondius cruise ship are under observation at the National Quarantine Unit in Omaha, Nebraska, but their accommodations are closer to ship’s cabins than cold hospital rooms.
“It is much more like a hotel than a patient care space,” said Angela Hewlett, medical director of the biocontainment unit at a briefing Monday held by the University of Nebraska Medical Center, home of the quarantine unit.