One passenger who is suffering mild symptoms will be taken to a second site to be treated separately, officials said.

Nations around the world on Monday repatriated passengers from a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak and quarantined or isolated them, including a French woman and an American who tested positive.

Seventeen Americans are expected to head to a federal quarantine facility in Nebraska, where public health officials say they will be assessing and monitoring each individual.

Seventeen American passengers from the virus-hit MV Hondius have returned to the US to be evaluated at a quarantine facility in Nebraska, with one confirmed case.

American passengers from the cruise ship at the center of the hantavirus outbreak, including at least one who tested positive, arrived in Nebraska early Monday for evaluation at a highly specialized quarantine unit.

One American on the repatriation flight began showing symptoms of hantavirus, and another "tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus," the Department of Health and Human Services said.

Seventeen Americans who disembarked the MV Hondius are being flown to Nebraska for evaluation after one tested positive and another showed symptoms.

One of 17 American citizens repatriated from the MV Hondius cruise ship tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus hantavirus variant.