Argentina expands hantavirus search to Mendoza as cruise ship outbreak investigation widens

Three cruise ship passengers died from hantavirus infection during an April outbreak on the MV Hondius.

In April, three passengers aboard the MV Hondius died of hantavirus after departing from Ushuaia, at the southern edge of Argentina — and the country has yet to find the source. The colilargo, a long-tailed mouse and the sole known carrier of a human-transmissible hantavirus strain, was absent from over a hundred rodents trapped in Tierra del Fuego, prompting authorities to widen their search westward to Mendoza. What began as a localized maritime tragedy has become a reminder that invisible threats do not honor geography, and that the unknown origin of an outbreak may be as dangerous as the o

Argentina expands hantavirus search to Mendoza as cruise ship outbreak investigation widens

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