Arriving in the isolation ward of a biocontainment hospital is an unsettling, scary experience. In 2014, I spent 19 days in one while being treated for Ebola, watching the news cycle churn around me as my world receded to a small window, a phone, and the handful of providers in protective suits who came into my room every day.
More than a dozen Americans are living some version of that right now in a Nebraska quarantine facility — passengers from the MV Hondius, the cruise ship that at the center of a small but instructive outbreak of Andes hantavirus.
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