A Passenger, Quarantine, and Home Monitoring: Short Lessons on the Hantavirus Response

Angela Perryman is a woman who was on a cruise ship with a hantavirus outbreak. She is from Ecuador and she flew back to the United States with other passengers.

She stayed at a special medical facility in Nebraska for health checks. She wanted to return to South Florida and be watched at home, but on May 18 she received a legal order that required her to stay until the end of the month. She said, "I am being detained against my will." The CDC has publicly acknowledged two mandatory quarantine orders and asked others to be monitored at home.