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Texas Resident #1

MONITORING
US-TX-001
PASSENGER · U

DOSSIER

UPDATED · 2026-05-13

Both Houston residents remain symptom-free per Texas Department of State Health Services. They were not sent to the Nebraska federal monitoring site because they had already disembarked the ship and returned to Texas before the outbreak was identified, and so are continuing self-monitoring with daily temperature checks at home. Dr Peter Hotez of Baylor College of Medicine told click2houston on May 11 that, given the late-March to early-April exposure window and the three-to-six-week incubation period for Andes virus, 'there is a good likelihood they will not turn out to have the hantavirus infection.' Texas health authorities continue to decline to release identifying details, exact residence, age, sex or test results to protect privacy

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UPDATED · 2026-05-11

Texas DSHS confirmed on May 7 2026 that two Texas residents were notified by CDC as having been passengers on the MV Hondius who returned to the US before the outbreak was identified; DSHS reached both, neither is symptomatic, and both reported no contact with a sick person while aboard. Both Texas residents have since been confirmed as residents of the City of Houston; Houston officials have implemented first-responder safety protocols for any service calls involving the pair. DSHS has stated it will not release names, ages, sexes, or specific locations to protect privacy; the two have agreed to daily temperature self-checks and to contact public health officials at any sign of illness, with the understanding that symptoms can take up to eight weeks to manifest after exposure

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ORIGINAL ENTRY

US national, Texas resident. MV Hondius passenger. Under CDC monitoring and voluntary home isolation. Asymptomatic. Identity withheld. Sources: CDC press release. Updated 2026-05-09: Texas DSHS reached both residents; both report no symptoms, no contact with sick person aboard, agreed to self-monitor with daily temperature checks. Official DSHS statement on record

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dshs.texas.gov news alert, khou.com (May 7 2026)

KEY DATES

EXPOSURE
2026-04-01
ONSET
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TRAVEL TIMELINE

  1. STOP 1 · Apr 1 → Apr 1Ushuaia, MV Hondius boardingBoarded MV Hondius for Atlantic Odyssey (149 passengers and crew)
  2. STOP 2 · Apr 3 → Apr 22At sea — Antarctic Peninsula / South GeorgiaAtlantic Odyssey expedition segment
  3. STOP 3 · Apr 24 → Apr 25Saint Helena — early disembarkationAmong the ~29-30 passengers who disembarked early at Saint Helena April 24 per AP reporting
  4. STOP 4 · Apr 25 → Apr 26Johannesburg O.R. Tambo — transitAIRLINK Saint Helena to Johannesburg charter, then onward connecting flight home
  5. STOP 5 · Apr 27 → PRESENTTexas, USA — home isolationTexas DSHS self-monitoring protocol; daily temperature checks; asymptomatic; no city disclosed.
  6. STOP 6 · May 1 → PRESENTTexas, USAHome isolation. CDC monitoring.