Lessons learned from the 2018 hantavirus outbreak in Argentina

This super-spread event provides insight into the dynamics of virus transmission and effective measures to reduce infection.

Argentine authorities are working to recreate the journey of "patient zero" before he boarded the MV Hondius cruise ship on April 1. The 70-year-old Dutch ornithologist travelled with his wife for four months between Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. He died on board the ship on April 11, while his wife succumbed to the illness fifteen days later in a Johannesburg hospital. Experts have been tasked with capturing and analyzing wild rodents that form the natural reservoir of the Andean flu virus. Their work will begin in Ushuaia, the southernmost city of Argentina, the cruise ship's departure point. Argentine authorities are investigating a possible open-air landfill where the ornithologist couple reportedly went to observe birds. They may have inhaled dust from the feces of infected rats living there. However, the pathogen has never been detected in that area.

Lessons learned from the 2018 hantavirus outbreak in Argentina

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