On Monday, the Santa Clara County Public Health Department said the person is under close monitoring and restricted activities with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines.
"The individual is currently at home, feeling well, and reporting no symptoms of hantavirus at this time," the health department said in a statement Monday afternoon.
Santa Clara County health officer Dr. Sarah Rudman reiterated that the risk of contracting the hantavirus was extremely low.
Experts, including the CDC and health officials from where the virus is more common, said people who are exposed to the Andes hantavirus are only infectious if they develop symptoms.
If the person comes down with symptoms, officials added that there was a "comprehensive care plan" to prevent exposure risk to first responders, healthcare providers, other patients and the public.
On Sunday, passengers began disembarking from the ship after it docked in Spain's Canary Islands, 17 of whom were Americans. Most of the U.S. passengers were sent to the National Quarantine Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, while two others were taken to a biocontainment facility at Emory University in Atlanta.
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