An influencer has been one of the many people trapped on the cruise ship MV Hondius after the hantavirus outbreak.
Influencer Jake Rosmarin says that his adventure across the world turned to disaster after the hantavirus broke out. Speaking with the Daily Mail, he opened up about a couple that died.
"It was the man who died first, and then the woman died, and everyone just assumed she died of a broken heart," Rosmarin said. "I don't think that anyone was suspicious of anything until that third person died, which was on May 2. For me, that's when I was really getting nervous: the third death, plus two other sick people on board. We found out it was hantavirus on May 3."
There were around 150 passengers on board the cruise ship. The travel influencer was flown to a solitary confinement at a quarantine facility in Nebraska.
Cruise Ship Quarantine
"From the beginning, it was hard. There were a lot of unknowns, being on that ship," he said. "We knew before hantavirus that we were supposed to be going to Cape Verde, and we were at least going to be able to medically evacuate the ill people on the ship. By the mid-morning we found Cape Verde authorities were not being cooperative for the medical evacuation. That's when I got really scared."
He also opened up about what it has been like to quarantine since leaving the cruise ship.
"Once we got on the plane, it was very bare minimum on the inside. There were only a few rows for passengers, because there's a whole bio-containment medical unit on the plane. We were all given a sandwich, a notepad and marker, to be able to speak with the medical staff who were all in hazmat suits. We each had individual thermometers, just in case we were to develop any symptoms during the trip, to take our temperature," he said.
