United States Health News API

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            "description": "Barely a month ago, these passengers were embarking on a voyage to some of the world’s most remote islands. Now they are isolating in their cabins, trapped aboard a ship anchored in the Atlantic.",
            "content": "Barely a month ago, they were embarking on a voyage of adventure to some of the world’s most remote islands. Encounters with whales, dolphins and penguins awaited; landscapes of icy expanses, towering cliffs and rolling green hills beckoned.\nNow they... [4415 chars]",
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            "description": "Passengers aboard the ship are in good spirits but may have to quarantine for \"eight weeks,\" a World Health Organization official told CBS News.",
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            "description": "Hantavirus is typically spread through contact with rodent feces, urine or saliva. But cases on the MV Hondius cruise ship point to an unusual means of transmission.",
            "content": "It appears that hantavirus — which is typically spread by exposure to rodent urine, feces or saliva and can be deadly — may have spread between passengers on a cruise ship that's anchored off the coast of Cape Verde.\n\"We do believe that there may be ... [4794 chars]",
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