Vacationing doctor who treated hantavirus patients tests positive for virus

A retired oncologist who stepped into the role of ship's doctor out of a sense of duty now finds himself in a biocontainment unit in Nebraska, a quiet reminder that the line between healer and patient has always been thin. Dr. Stephen Kornfeld treated hantavirus patients aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship without knowing what illness he was confronting, and a faint positive test result has placed him in isolation as a precaution. Eleven confirmed cases have emerged from the ship's 94 evacuated passengers, and the Andes strain at the center of this outbreak carries a mortality rate that commands