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A trapped cruise ship passenger is sharing an updated statement amid a hantavirus outbreak.

Jake Rosmarin, a travel blogger from Boston, is aboard the Dutch vessel M/V Hondius, which was on a weeks-long polar cruise from Argentina to Antarctica and several isolated islands in the South Atlantic when the deadly outbreak began.

In a tearful video shared to Instagram on Monday, Rosmarin said, "All we want right now is to feel safe, to have clarity and to get home."

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On Tuesday, Rosmarin shared an updated statement with Fox News Digital.

"Other than the two ill passengers that have already been referenced in the media, everyone else onboard is doing well and remains in good spirits," Rosmarin said. "We are hopeful that this situation will be resolved soon."

Rosmarin praised the crew of Oceanwide Expeditions’ "best efforts" to keep passengers "safe, informed and as comfortable as possible during this time."

The passenger also pointed out that the M/V Hondius is not a traditional cruise ship, but an expedition vessel.

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"These ships operate with strict protocols and a strong emphasis on cleanliness, especially given the remote and environmentally sensitive regions they visit, which require high levels of biosecurity," he said. "The vessel is maintained to a very high standard, and suggestions that it is unclean are not accurate."

Rosmarin also detailed the safety measures in place on the ship, including social distancing and masking.

"Passengers also have the option to have meals delivered directly to their cabins," he said. "Access to the outer decks is permitted for fresh air, while gathering in indoor common areas such as the lounge is currently restricted."

"We continue to be well cared for, and additional medical provisions and supplies have been brought onboard."

Rosmarin said he remains hopeful that the situation will be resolved soon. 

The ship originally departed from Argentina on April 1. The first illness and death occurred on April 11, and the ship reached Saint Helena on April 22 with the first victim onboard.

Hantaviruses include a group of viruses primarily carried by rodents that can cause severe respiratory or renal diseases in humans.

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There have now been a total of seven cases reported (two confirmed and five suspected), and three deaths among passengers, the World Health Organization confirmed. Two crew members are currently ill and one passenger was evacuated to intensive care in South Africa, according to reports.

WHO said the agency is still investigating the outbreak as the ship remains off the coast of Cape Verde, noting that human-to-human transmission is uncommon and that there is not a high risk to the wider ‌public.

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"We do believe that there may be some human-to-human transmission that's happening among the really close ​contacts, the husband and wife, people who have shared cabins," Maria Van Kerkhove, the director of epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention at the WHO, told reporters in Geneva.

Fox News Digital reached out to the cruise ship company requesting comment.

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It hasn't been a great stretch of baseball for me over the past few days. Sometimes the looks are correct, but the outcomes are wrong. Sure, it is easy to say the look is wrong if you have a losing ticket, and there is a lot of truth.

Yesterday, the Philadelphia Phillies won the first five innings 1-0. I expected Aaron Nola to be worse, but he pitched well, so my play on the Miami Marlins was a loss, but it wasn't a terrible look. Today, I hope we can get back on track with the Toronto Blue Jays taking on the Tampa Bay Rays.

The Blue Jays were inches, minutes, outs, whatever descriptor you wanted to use, away from winning the World Series last year. This season, they look like they will struggle to even make the playoffs.

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They are currently three games under .500, which is a rough look considering they are in one of the toughest divisions in baseball. Is it a World Series hangover, or is it something worse for the team? The pitching staff looks a bit rough, throwing to a 4.27 ERA and a 1.30 WHIP.

One of their better starters is taking the hill tonight as the Rays turn to Kevin Gausman. For the year, Gausman is 2-2 with a 3.10 ERA and a 0.96 WHIP. He has made three road starts this season, with just one of them being a quality outing. He has allowed nine earned runs over 16.2 innings. The Rays have been very strong against the Blue Jays right-hander in the past. In 74 at-bats against Gausman, they are hitting .351. They only have four extra-base hits against him, though.

Tampa Bay is one of those teams that finds ways to win no matter who is on their roster. I have to say that I'm a bit shocked at how great the team is looking through the beginning portion of the year. They are 22-12 with one of the best records in baseball. At home, they are 12-4, looking like one of the most dominant teams in the sport. As a team, they are hitting .253, and the pitching staff is throwing to a 3.67 ERA and a 1.20 WHIP.

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Looking to position them for yet another win is Drew Rasmussen. For the season, the righty is 2-1 with a 2.64 ERA and a 0.85 WHIP. He has made two home starts this year and has gone six innings in both of them. He has allowed a total of six hits, one walk and one earned run over those 12 innings. Blue Jays hitters haven't been great against him, hitting just .200 overall, but they do have five extra-base hits of their 12 hits. That signifies that when they do make contact, they hit the ball hard.

There are a few things that stand out to me here. First, I think the Rays have the upper hand in this game and should grab the win. With a line of -130 for the Rays, I think we still have value, and I'm going to take them to win. Rasmussen has been very strong. Gausman is keeping this line closer, but the Blue Jays have been awful on the road, and the Rays have been strong at home.

One other play worth putting a little bit of money on is a prop. Yandy Diaz has been excellent against Gausman. While he doesn't have a ton of extra-base hits against him, he does have a .583 average against him in 12 at-bats. I like him to get 2+ total bases at +120.

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As the country prepares for America's 250th birthday celebrations this summer, several major food companies are getting in on the party by releasing limited-edition, patriotic-themed products.

Cheerios, Coca-Cola, Mountain Dew and Oreo are among the iconic, all-American brands teasing special items to commemorate the country's semiquincentennial anniversary, Allrecipes.com reported.

Cheerios will release a birthday cake-flavored cereal, set to hit shelves in a commemorative red, white and blue box in early summer.

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The new cereal "tastes like vanilla cake and features red, white and blue sprinkles, which are not made with artificial coloring as part of the brand's initiative to remove all FD&C [food, drug & cosmetic] dyes from cereals by this summer," Allrecipes reported.

General Mills first introduced the breakfast cereal as Cheerioats in 1941 before renaming the brand Cheerios four years later, according to its website.

The Coca-Cola Co. is going all-in on the celebration with "limited-edition America250 packaging, including custom bottles and Coca‑Cola's first-ever America250 collectible mini-cans," according to Coke's website.

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Each mini-can features a design unique to one of the 50 states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, highlighting iconic local symbols — from Georgia's peach to California's "surfer culture."

Mountain Dew has temporarily rebranded itself in honor of the semiquincentennial.

PepsiCo, which owns Mountain Dew, renamed the celebrated soft drink "American Dew" for the summer. The rebranded soda will also feature American flag-themed labels and packaging.

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Oreo has gotten in on the anniversary action by announcing the launch of its Firecracker Pop cookie, which was scheduled to arrive in stores on May 4.

The creation is a result of a collaboration between Oreo and Popsicle, Today.com reported. It features "a triple-flavored treat with blue raspberry, lemon and cherry-flavored creme sandwiched between two golden cookies."

"Love that we have the 3-layered Oreos back!" someone wrote on an Instagram post announcing the new flavor.

"Last time they did something like this, it was so gross! But I will try anyway," another person commented. Others described it as "perfect for Fourth of July."

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As Fox News Digital previously reported, Steak 'n Shake rolled out a $2.50 Statue of Liberty milkshake in March that went viral. The shake features vanilla ice cream "blended with birthday cake, finished with whipped cream, patriotic sprinkles and an iconic dark chocolate Statue of Liberty," according to the company's website.

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The Sunday baseball card often looks packed. Every team plays almost every Sunday, so you have a lot of games to choose from. As a sports bettor, that’s a good thing because you have opportunities for the books to make mistakes. However, it also takes longer for you to evaluate each game. Let me do the work for you and give you a risky, but fun, look at a game between the Braves and the Rockies.

The Braves come into the game with a strong record for the year, and the start that everyone hoped they would get off to after the rough last season. It is amazing what can happen when you don’t have constant injuries to your team. In fairness, there are still some missing pieces, but Atlanta has been able to navigate those better than it did last year. It is only the start of May, and the NL East looks like theirs to lose.

To make matters worse for the teams chasing them, they are sending out a great starter to the mound, Spencer Strider. This will be the season debut for Strider, and I have to expect that the Braves will be rather cautious with him. Last season, he turned in 23 starts and accumulated 125.1 innings over the season. He didn’t have a great year, going 7-14 with a 4.45 ERA and a 1.40 WHIP. The good news for him is that he gets to come back against a soft-hitting Rockies team. However, they are 8-for-32 overall against him, but only have two RBIs and 14 strikeouts.

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The Colorado Rockies were expected to be the worst team in baseball by most analysts. That hasn’t proven to be the case, as it seems like they have some fight in them this year. Before we start printing playoff tickets, the team is still under .500 and won’t sniff the postseason. However, for a team that won 43 games last year and didn’t have 15 wins until June 16th, they are at least ahead of that pace.

There are a number of reasons the team is performing better — pride, better hitting and better pitching, etc. To me, one guy specifically stands out who has had a good start to the season, and that is today’s starter, Kyle Freeland. For the year, Freeland is 1-2 with a 3.48 ERA and a 1.11 WHIP. I’ve been a Freeland fan for many years and think he has been buried a bit with the Rockies. He was never likely to be an Ace with a club, but he probably could’ve been a reliable arm and even a postseason starter. He only has one start at home this year, but it was a very good one, going 6.1 innings and allowing just one run on three hits.

The bad news for the Rockies and Freeland is that the club has feasted on his pitching over the years. Collectively, the Braves are 45-for-137 against him, leading to a .328 average. Ozzie Albies is the guy I’m locked in on for 3+ total bases and may even do 4+ and 5+ as he is hitting 11-for-24 with four extra-base hits against Freeland.

Another one worth playing is Mauricio Dubon, who is 7-for-19 with four extra-base hits off of Freeland. Albies will be an official play, but I’m going to do a Same Game Parlay for a bit of Sunday fun with 2+ total bases from Albies (3+), Dubon, Mike Yastrzemski and Austin Rile. That pays out at 12:1.

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Call it Upper East Side cardio — with a carry-on.

More than a decade after playing Serena’s mom, Lily van der Woodsen, on "Gossip Girl," Kelly Rutherford is now trading Pilates for passport stamps.

The actress told Fox News Digital she prefers a fitness routine that keeps her looking and feeling her best, effortlessly, of course.

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"I think just pushing luggage through the airport lately has been [my] workout," she laughed. "Seriously, it’s been a lot of that. But I love to swim. I was on the swim team in school. I find it so peaceful, and it’s good for your whole body. And I find it’s really good mentally, too. So, I love that."

"I love to play tennis in the summer with my kids, and [do] a lot of things outdoors," she shared. "I love to go for a hike or a walk. I have little dogs. I have two little dachshunds, so they keep me very busy running after them."

That jet-set pace is no accident.

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The star, 57, recently teamed up with her longtime friend Véronique Gabai to launch a perfume, "Rose Première." It's a luxurious blend of mandarin, musk and the iconic romantic flower.

Last year, the women traveled to Grasse in the south of France, where the Rose de Mai of Grasse, a rare and highly fragrant rose, is hand-harvested in the early May mornings when its scent is at its peak. The women spent many sunrises bonding over picking flowers.

The passion project brought Rutherford back to her childhood, watching her grandfather tend to his rose garden — while keeping her active.

For Rutherford, though, it's also about something deeper.

"I think you always want to stay healthy for your kids and be a good example for your children," she explained. "As much as we want to give advice and say so many things to do, they really follow mostly what we do more than what we say. And I think about that a lot because I tend to want to do too many things. And so, I have to say, ‘OK, I don’t want to set that example of being too stressed and trying to do too many things and worry.’"

"I've learned to say, 'How do I create a balanced life?'" she said. "But they're giving me advice at this point. I think the greatest thing I've learned is to ask your kids for advice because they know. They're so smart. Every generation comes in with more knowledge and more information, certainly about the time they're living in. So, I think it's important to listen and be open."

The star is in familiar territory. While she calls the U.S. home, she’s also built a life in Monaco, where her children are based.

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"I love it there," she gushed. "It's so beautiful. Look, anytime I think you're close to your kids, it's the most beautiful thing. And it's a beautiful place. It's very quiet. Obviously, in the summer with the Grand Prix and all the people coming to enjoy the south of France, it's super busy. But most of the year, it's super quiet and a beautiful place to live."

"If you go to Paris, you're inspired by people walking down the street," she pointed out. "In Monaco, it's the same thing. I'm always inspired by Monaco. You can get really dressy in Monaco, but you can also, like in New York, be casual and relaxed. Maybe it's a bit conservative in certain ways, but you find that everywhere."

"And Grace Kelly — I think we’ve got to give her a lot of credit for Monaco and for what it is today, and for her style and what she brought there," Rutherford continued, referring to the American Oscar winner who became princess of Monaco.

"I think of her often in Monaco — what she brought, how she raised her children and what an amazing woman she was."

"It’s funny, I remember taking my daughter for a mani-pedi in Monaco," Rutherford reflected. "There was a perfume on the counter. It was a fragrance for Grace Kelly. I thought, ‘I’m going to have my own perfume like Grace Kelly!’"

The late actress has also inspired Rutherford's approach to makeup. These days, she prefers simple "clean beauty," sticking to products made without harsh or unnecessary ingredients.

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But her glow isn’t just skin-deep.

"What makes me feel confident? My goodness, I think love," she said. "I think loving my children and feeling loved by my children and my doggies. Having work I love and friends I love, like Véronique Gabai, whom I've known for 15 years. To work with people that I love and admire. I think it's [about] having a really good foundation of love, and that foundation in my life helps everything else. I think it gives me a lot of confidence in what I'm doing."

"It will always be love," she added.

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Before reviewing the proposal on Saturday, US President Donald Trump said he could not imagine it "would be acceptable".

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