The Country Where Lethal Hantavirus Cases Are on the Rise. Experts Blame Climate Change
Authorities say the season has brought 101 confirmed cases and 32 deaths, while investigators trace a cruise ship outbreak linked to the Andes strain.
- Argentina's Health Ministry reported 101 confirmed hantavirus cases this season, compared to 57 last year, as authorities investigate a separate outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius that departed Ushuaia on April 1.
- Climate change and habitat destruction are fueling the trend, according to experts, as environmental degradation allows virus-carrying rodents to thrive in new areas outside historically endemic regions.
- Citing records, Juan Petrina, director of epidemiology for Tierra del Fuego, stated the timeline "doesn't add up for them to have contracted the disease here," as the couple visited Ushuaia only from March 29 to April 1.
- Technical health teams are deploying to Ushuaia to analyze local rodents, while Buenos Aires province reported the highest infection count this season with 42 cases concentrated in the central region.
- Lethality rates have increased by 10 percentage points over the previous year, marking a more severe situation than the 2018 Patagonia outbreak, which killed 11 people and resulted in dozens of infections.
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Cases have almost doubled in Argentina.
Hantavirus cases nearly doubled in Argentina in the past year. Experts say climate change is to blame
The rise comes as Argentina races to trace the footsteps of a couple who traveled extensively in the country and later died amid an outbreak on the cruise ship Hondius.
Hantavirus is on the rise in Argentina, where a stricken cruise ship began its journey
(AP) – Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to determine if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise. The health emergency aboard the ship that’s moored across the ocean comes as Argentina sees a surge of hantavirus cases that many local public health researchers attribute to the recently accelerating effects of climate change. Argentina, where the cruise to Antarctica departed,…
The cases of hantavirus in Argentina have almost doubled in the last year, with 32 deaths and the highest number of infections since 2018, according to the Ministry of Health in Argentina. The increase coincides with the authorities' efforts to track a Dutch couple who traveled intensively through the country before dying during a outbreak of virus on the cruise ship MV Hondius, reports CNN.The current season has already brought 101 confirmed ca…
Hantavirus cases in Argentina have almost doubled in the last year, with 32 deaths and the largest number of infections from 2018 to the present.
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