Anonymousabout 2 hours ago
A deadly outbreak of Andes hantavirus aboard the polar expedition vessel MV Hondius — which killed three passengers and sickened at least five others — has been traced by Argentine investigators to a bird-watching excursion near a landfill in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, a province that had never previously recorded a hantavirus case. The outbreak, the first of its kind linked to a cruise ship, has raised urgent questions about person-to-person transmission of the Andes strain, diagnostic delays that may have cost lives, and the adequacy of biosecurity protocols governing expedition vessels operating in endemic regions of South America.