An adult in Colorado has died after a ​confirmed case of hantavirus that is not linked ‌to a recent MV Hondius cruise ship outbreak, Colorado Department of Public Health ​and Environment and the Douglas County Health Department officials reported.

Hantavirus infections caused by the Sin Nombre hantavirus occur regularly in Colorado, usually in the spring and summer, and can cause a severe and sometimes deadly respiratory disease. In Colorado, the deer mouse is the rodent species that most commonly exposes people to the virus. Avoiding exposure to rodents and their urine, feces, saliva, and nesting materials is the best way to prevent infection.

Colorado health officials are still working to identify the source in this case. Preliminary evidence suggests the infection was acquired by local exposure to rodents. The risk to the public remains low.

Meanwhile, at least two passengers were formally ordered to stay in quarantine in Nebraska after they pushed to leave, CNN reported. The others were told that if they did not voluntarily stay, they would also be ordered to remain.

On Sunday, the 18 passengers staying at the National Quarantine Center were told by Dr. David Fitter, who is leading the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s response to the hantavirus outbreak, and Dr. Denis Fitzgerald from the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, that they will have to remain at the facility until at least May 31. The Americans at the National Quarantine Center were told that the strategy had shifted because three passengers—from Spain, France and Canada—had tested positive for hantavirus after they’d gotten off the ship on May 10.

New York City hotel housekeepers signed an eight-year contract that would increase wages by more than 50%, union officials told The New York Times.

An annual salary of at least US$100,000 will be implemented for NYC hotel cleaners following the labor agreement between the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council and the Hotel Association of New York, finalized on Tuesday.

The hotel workers’ union said the new contract would raise housekeepers’ pay from just under $40 an hour to over $61 an hour by 2034. Additionally, the hotel owners will continue to pay the full cost of providing healthcare benefits to 27,000 union members and their families.

By the sixth year of the hotel workers’ contract, they would earn more than $100,000 annually, the union said. That would amount to an increase of about 52%, or a compounded annual growth rate of more than 5%. By the end of the proposed contract, in 2034, union housekeepers could be earning about $110,000 a year.

The deal averts a threatened strike this summer that could have disrupted the influx of tourists expected for the World Cup and America’s 250th birthday celebration. Rising labor expenses will likely lead to higher costs for visitors, but NYC already has the highest average room rates of any major U.S. city, about $335 a night, The New York Times reported. In the past year, New York hotels also had the nation’s highest occupancy rate, about 84%.

In the past few years, The New York Times reported that hotel employees had gone on strike in several major cities, including Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. However, no citywide strike by hotel housekeepers in NYC had occurred since a 1985 walkout that lasted nearly a month.

The new NYC hotel housekeepers’ contract coincides with a sharp rise in the region’s cost of living, prompting the union to seek raises above inflation. In the past year, consumer prices in the region rose 4.6%, which was significantly higher than the national inflation rate of 3.8%, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.