Polemic with an 'Influencer' that Was Recorded Playing with a Mouse in an Endemic Area of the Hantavirus

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In San Carlos de Bariloche (Argentina) collargos mice are the main reservoir of hantavirus, a serious viral disease that has the world in vilo and that in Andean Patagonia can even be transmitted among people in some cases.The collargo mouse is a wild rodent typical of forests and rural areas of southern Argentina and Chile. The virus is transmitted mainly by inhaling particles contaminated with urine, saliva or dry feces of these animals, as we…

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This is the collargo, the small South American mouse that transmits the hantavirus of the Andes. We tell you what this little rodent is like, where it lives, how it acts and why it cannot swim in the open sea.