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  "textContent": "Teresa Jack, who lives in Connecticut, has already consulted with her lawyers about passengers spreading the disease (Picture: AP/Teresa jack)\n\nA woman is preparing to sue anyone on the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius who does not self-isolate.\n\nTeresa Jack, who lives in Connecticut, has already consulted with her lawyers about passengers spreading the disease once they disembark the ship.\n\nThree people have died following the outbreak of the virus, with eight reported cases. It is suspected a Dutch couple who visited a landfill in Argentina caught the disease and brought it onto the cruise ship with them.\n\nThere are 17 US citizens still on board the ship, as well as a number of passengers who returned home before the outbreak was confirmed.\n\nAt least three US states – Georgia, California and Arizona – are monitoring people who may have been exposed to the virus, which has a 50% mortality rate according to the World Health Organisation.\n\nNow Teresa has organised a lawsuit in case a preventable outbreak occurs due to people not self-isolating.\n\n##  Sign up for all of the latest stories\n\nStart your day informed with Metro's **News Updates** newsletter or get **Breaking News** alerts the moment it happens.\n\nIndividuals wearing hazmat suits are helped into an ambulance (Picture: AFP via Getty Images)\n\nThe 35-year-old has received support from nearly 15,000 people, who have pledged to contribute $1 million to the legal fund should it go ahead.\n\nTeresa **told Metro** : ‘I am not a lawyer, but I am a woman with a spreadsheet.\n\n‘I lost too much over Covid, and we Americans are sick of everything feeling out of our control.’\n\nThe US’s war in Iran, Trump’s tariffs and the Covid-19 virus have all contributed to a feeling of helplessness, Teresa, a musical theatre performer, said.\n\nShe lost out on income after theatres were closed, which she is still feeling the financial affects of this to this day.\n\nTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvideo\n\nUp Next\n\nPrevious Page\n\nNext Page\n\nTeresa also lost loved ones to Covid as well as nearly dying after contracting it herself\n\n‘The American people were left defenceless during the last pandemic,’ she said. ‘Solidarity and community will look very different this time.’\n\nShe added: ‘I know Brits will say it is a violently American way to threaten with a lawsuit. But that’s the culture we live in, so it’s the action we need to take.’\n\nHer lawsuit, which she will open up as class action, will include those who choose not to self-isolate as well as government institutions for failing to protect public health.\n\nThe neighbours of those who are on board the ship have reached out to Teresa directly, pledging their support.\n\nAnd since its announcement, Teresa has been in contact with the state of Arizona’s Attorney General’s Office.\n\nShe told them ‘concerned citizens are preared to pool $1 million should a preventable outbreak occur’.\n\nSince that confirmation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said passengers will be flown to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska.\n\nThey will then be taken to the National Quarantine Centre.\n\nTeresa said: ‘I feel like the threat has already made a difference.’\n\n******Get in touch with our news team by emailing us atwebnews@metro.co.uk.******\n\n**For more stories like this,** check our news page.\n\nComment now Comments \nAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google\nAdd as preferred source\n",
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