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Kennedy Orders Cruise Passenger Quarantine Despite CDC Recommendation

16 June 2026 17:04

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

ordered a cruise passenger exposed to hantavirus to remain in Nebraska quarantine, overriding a CDC recommendation for home isolation. - Angela Perryman, 47, has been symptom-free for five weeks but is confined until June 21.

- CDC's Dr. Michael Bell recommended home quarantine, but Florida refused federal monitoring conditions.

- Public health experts call the decision an 'egregious violation' of rights and hypocritical. - Eight of 18 evacuated passengers remain at the Nebraska facility.

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