2026年5月11日 美国东部时间下午1:38 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
当地时间周一，在爆发汉塔病毒疫情的邮轮上的美国人返回美国后，大部分人被送往内布拉斯加大学医学中心，该中心拥有多个可对接触传染病的人员进行监测和治疗的专业设施。
官员们周一表示，邮轮上的15名人员目前正在内布拉斯加州奥马哈市该大学校园内的国家隔离点接受隔离。该隔离点是美国唯一由联邦政府资助的同类设施，首次投入使用是在致命的新冠肺炎大流行初期。
“全美没有任何地方能比这里更安全、更有效地为他们提供更好的护理，”内布拉斯加大学校长杰弗里·戈尔德博士周一说道。
该医学中心内还有内布拉斯加生物防护单元，用于隔离点内人员出现症状并需要治疗的情况。官员们表示，其中一名邮轮乘客已被送往该单元，目前情况良好。
另有两名邮轮乘客被送往亚特兰大埃默里大学的生物防护设施。
以下是关于国家隔离点和内布拉斯加生物防护单元你需要了解的信息：
隔离点“更像酒店”
内布拉斯加生物防护单元的医疗主任安吉拉·休利特周一表示，该隔离点“专为需要接受监测的无症状人员设计”。
国家隔离点的医疗主任迈克尔·韦德曼表示，该设施内共有20间单人客房，人员之间不会互相接触，除医护人员外不允许访客进入。
在隔离期间，工作人员会监测人员是否出现任何症状，并进行体温检测。
据该大学介绍，每间客房都配备“独立的负压空气系统”和过滤器，以防止任何可能的病毒传播。
客房还旨在为人员提供舒适的居住环境。休利特将该设施描述为“与其说是患者护理空间，不如说更像一家酒店”，并指出这里没有医院设备。客房内配有独立浴室、健身器材和无线网络。
生物防护单元的患者护理空间
如果隔离点内的人员出现症状，他们将接受评估并被转移至内布拉斯加生物防护单元。
“生物防护单元是患者护理空间，”休利特说道。“我们在这里为有需要的患者提供医院级别的护理，患者的病情可以从相对稳定到危重不等，可能需要多种治疗手段和干预措施。”
生物防护单元内的病房同样配备负压空气系统和过滤器，以防止病毒传播。
“这与普通医院的常规患者病房截然不同，”休利特说道。
休利特表示，该单元的收治容量会根据病毒类型和需要处理的废物量而有所不同。
“通常我们可以接收10名患有空气传播疾病的患者，比如禽流感和冠状病毒，”她说道。而汉塔病毒感染后“病情会发展得相当快”，因此该单元通常只能接收2至3名患者。
官员们表示，这一收治容量也是为何有两人被送往埃默里生物防护单元的原因。如果内布拉斯加生物防护单元的床位不足以接收出现症状的人员，他们可能会被送往美国其他治疗中心。
应对传染病的历史
内布拉斯加大学医学中心的隔离点和生物防护单元过去都曾用于收治传染病患者。
隔离点首次启动是在2020年，当时美国公民从新冠肺炎疫情爆发地中国撤离。
生物防护单元曾收治首批确诊新冠肺炎的美国人中的一部分病例。该单元还在2014年启动，用于收治感染埃博拉病毒的美国人。
“我们已经为这类情况做好了准备，”内布拉斯加医疗中心首席执行官迈克尔·阿什博士在一份关于汉塔病毒邮轮乘客返回的声明中说道。“几十年来，我们的团队一直在与联邦和州合作伙伴一同开展训练，确保我们能够在保护医护人员和广大社区安全的同时提供护理服务。我们很自豪能够支持这项全国性的工作。”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/17-americans-evacuated-from-hantavirus-cruise-ship-arrive-back-in-us/
Americans from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship were taken to a quarantine unit in Nebraska. Here’s why.
2026-05-11 1:38 PM EDT / CBS News
When Americans who were on the cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak arrived back in the United States Monday, most of them were brought to the University of Nebraska Medical Center, which has multiple specialized facilities to monitor and treat people exposed to infectious diseases.
Fifteen people who were on the cruise are at the National Quarantine Unit on the university’s campus in Omaha, Nebraska, officials said Monday. The quarantine unit is the only federally funded facility of its kind and was first used in the early months of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.
“There is no place in the country that they could be better cared for more safely and more effectively,” Dr. Jeffrey Gold, president of the University of Nebraska, said Monday.
Also at the medical center is the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, which is used if people in the quarantine unit develop symptoms and need treatment. One of the passengers from the ship was taken there and is doing well, officials said.
Two others from the ship were taken to a biocontainment facility at Emory University in Atlanta.
Here’s what to know about the National Quarantine Unit and Nebraska Biocontainment Unit:
Quarantine unit “more like a hotel”
The quarantine unit is “designed for well individuals who need to be monitored,” Angela Hewlett, the medical director of the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, said Monday.
There are 20 single-occupancy rooms in the facility. There is no intermingling and no visitors, aside from medical staff, said Michael Wadman, the medical director of National Quarantine Unit.
While in the unit, individuals are monitored for any symptoms and receive temperature checks.
Each room has “individual negative air pressure systems” and filters to prevent the spread of any possible virus, according to the university.
The rooms are also designed to keep people comfortable. Hewlett described the facility as “much more like a hotel than a patient care space,” noting they don’t have hospital equipment. The rooms have their own bathrooms, exercise equipment and Wi-Fi connectivity.
Patient care space in biocontainment unit
If someone in the quarantine unit develops symptoms, they would be assessed and moved to the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit.
“The biocontainment unit is a patient care space,” Hewlett said. “That’s where we provide hospital-based care to people who need it, and those patients could range from being relatively well and stable to critically ill, requiring multiple procedures and multiple interventions.”
Rooms in the biocontainment unit have the same air pressure systems and filters to prevent the spread of viruses.
“It’s a very different facility compared to your routine patient care room in a regular hospital,” Hewlett said.
The capacity of the unit varies depending on the virus and how much waste needs to be processed, Hewlett said.
“We typically can take 10 patients with an airborne disease,” such as bird flu and coronaviruses, she said. With the disease caused by hantavirus, which can cause people to “become ill fairly quickly,” the unit can typically take two to three patients, she said.
That capacity is why two people were taken to the Emory biocontainment unit, officials said. If more people develop symptoms than the number of beds available at the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, they could be taken to other treatment centers in the U.S.
History of responding to infectious diseases
Both the UNMC quarantine unit and biocontainment unit have been used for infectious diseases in the past.
The quarantine unit was first activated in 2020 when Americans were evacuated from China, where the COVID-19 outbreak began.
The biocontainment unit treated some of the first Americans diagnosed with COVID-19. It was also activated in 2014 to treat Americans with Ebola.
“We are prepared for situations exactly like this,” Dr. Michael Ash, the CEO of Nebraska Medicine, said in a statement about the passengers arriving from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship. “Our teams have trained for decades alongside federal and state partners to make sure we can safely provide care while protecting our staff and the broader community. We are proud to support this national effort.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/17-americans-evacuated-from-hantavirus-cruise-ship-arrive-back-in-us/
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