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DR MARC SIEGEL, JENNIFER JOHNSON: Meet the angel doctors fighting hantavirus
Dr David Brett-Major says there are no 'unmanaged surprises' during the flight of American passengers
By Dr. Marc Siegel , Jennifer Johnson Fox News
Published May 18, 2026 12:59pm EDT
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Dr. David Brett-Major, an infectious disease doctor and professor of epidemiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center is a medical hero. He is a world renowned expert on quarantine and isolation of patients exposed to high risk pathogens including Ebola in "resource limited settings with smart, creative, resourceful colleagues." He has worked extensively in sub-Saharan Africa, and now, he is a major part of the U.S. State Department organized team that brings eighteen passengers back from Tenerife in the Canary Islands to Nebraska to the National Quarantine (15 go here) and Biocontainment Unit (Dr. Kornfeld is brought here initially for a weakly positive Hanta virus test). The remaining two fly on to Emory for biocontainment and quarantine there.
Brett-Major tells me in an interview that there are no "unmanaged surprises" during the flight of American passengers — who have been exposed to the Andes strain of the hantavirus — from the Canary Islands to Omaha, Nebraska.
We are standing together outside of the National Quarantine Center where the plane delivered its "cargo" two days before. I have been here........