Updated on: May 8, 2026 / 8:22 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google The United States government is sending a repatriation plane for the painstaking process of safely evacuating 17 Americans from the cruise ship dealing with a deadly hantavirus outbreak . The plane is being sent by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Health and Human Services, and will be used to transport Americans back to the U.S. in conjunction with Spanish officials, according to the U.S. State Department.  The Americans will be taken to the University of Nebraska Medical Center, which has a special biocontainment unit, upon their return to the U.S., the university and a CDC official said.…