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Bend doctor tells CNN he tested positive for hantavirus - The Bulletin

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A retired Bend doctor who was on a cruise ship where three people died after contracting the hantavirus says he too has tested positive for the dangerous virus. Stephen Kornfield, a longtime oncologist at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, told the news to CNN on Tuesday from a biocontainment unit in Nebraska. The Nebraska Medical Center is where American passengers from the cruise ship have been taken for testing and to remain in quarantine. Kornfield said he felt ill on the ship and tested “faintly positive” before arriving back in the U.S. He expects more testing to be done in the next few days. Passengers who had been on the ship are being treated at medical facilities around the world. An infected French woman is critically ill and being treated with an artificial lung, a doctor at the Paris hospital caring for the sickened passenger said Tuesday. The outbreak has now reached 11 total reported cases, 9 of which have been confirmed.…

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