No Hantavirus Found in Mendoza Province After Tests, Says Health Ministry
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The Argentine Ministry of Health excludes the presence of the rodent species vector of the transmissible Hantavirus strain in Mendoza province None of the rodents captured and analyzed in Mendoza province.
Investigations have been conducted for several weeks to trace the origin of the hantavirus outbreak, responsible for a global alert at the beginning of May. The Argentine authorities have captured and analysed rodents from Mendoza province. According to the first results, none of them belong to the species carrying the strain of the disease transmissible between humans. - Hantavirus: no rodent potentially vector of the disease identified in the …
A similar mission was carried out in Ushuaia from where the Hondius cruise ship on board which an outbreak of infection had triggered a global alarm in early May (13 confirmed cases, 3 deaths).
None of the rodents tested in the Argentine province belonged to the species that could carry the strain of Hantavirus transmissible between humans
None of the rodents analyzed by scientists in the Argentine province of Mendoza was of the species that can carry the hantavirus strain transmissible between humans, informed on Friday (12) the Ministry of Health of the country, as part of the investigation on the outbreak occurred on the cruise MV Hondius. See also: Cruise ship hit by hantavirus will sail again in June after passing through disinfection Trip to Uganda: Fiocruz will carry out an…
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