Argentine researchers trap rodents in Ushuaia to trace hantavirus outbreak origin

Three people died from hantavirus infection aboard cruise ship MV Hondius, with several others infected, prompting global contact tracing efforts.

In the forests at the edge of the inhabited world, Argentine scientists are asking whether a deadly virus has quietly crossed a boundary long thought impassable. Three deaths aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius — among them a Dutch couple who had walked these same southern trails — have set off an investigation into whether hantavirus, a pathogen that kills roughly one in three it infects, has established itself in Tierra del Fuego, a region once considered too cold and remote to harbor it. The answer, still weeks away, carries implications that reach far beyond one outbreak: it may reveal how s

Argentine researchers trap rodents in Ushuaia to trace hantavirus outbreak origin

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