Argentine scientists hunt hantavirus source after cruise ship outbreak

Three people died from hantavirus infection aboard the cruise ship, including a Dutch married couple who had traveled extensively across South America.

At the southern edge of the world, where forests meet the cold waters of Tierra del Fuego, scientists have begun a quiet but urgent reckoning with a virus that does not announce itself until it is too late. Three people died aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship after departing Ushuaia in April, victims of hantavirus — a rare and incurable respiratory illness carried by rodents. Argentine biologists now set traps across trails and national parkland not merely to find an animal, but to answer a question that carries weight for travelers, health systems, and the communities at the continent's end: W

Argentine scientists hunt hantavirus source after cruise ship outbreak

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