Past hantavirus outbreak shows how Andes virus spreads

PARIS — An elderly man had just started running a fever when he walked into a birthday party in the Argentine village of Epuyen in 2018. That began the last “super-spreader” event of the Andes strain of hantavirus, before a recent deadly outbreak on a cruise ship focused attention on this rare disease. With the race on to track down anyone who had contact with infected passengers, an investigation into the 2018 outbreak has offered clues to how this illness spreads. READ: First hantavirus infection could not have been during cruise – WHO Argentine scientists analysed samples from most of […]...

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