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Hantavirus outbreak linked to cruise ship, officials downplay local risk

Argentine health officials have stated there is a very low probability that a Dutch tourist who died from hantavirus contracted the illness in Ushuaia. The assessment is based on the virus's incubation period, as the patient and his wife, who also died, showed symptoms after leaving the city. Meanwhile, China's CDC has assured its citizens that the current hantavirus outbreak, originating from a cruise ship in Argentina, poses no threat to the country as the specific strain has no natural hosts there. AI

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Hantavirus outbreak linked to cruise ship, officials downplay local risk

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 · Agence France-Presse ·

    Argentine city tries to shrug off hantavirus ship ‘patient zero’ suspicions

    Argentina’s city “at the end of the world” Ushuaia, the jump-off point for expeditions to the Antarctic, has been labouring under suspicion of being the source of the deadly hantavirus outbreak that killed three cruise ship passengers. The MV Hondius set sail from this spectacula…

  2. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 · Agence France-Presse ·

    ‘Almost zero’ chance Dutch man got hantavirus in Argentina’s Ushuaia, official says

    There is an “almost zero” chance that the Dutch man linked to the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship contracted the disease in the Argentine port of Ushuaia, a provincial health official said on Friday. Juan Petrina, director of epidemiology for Tierra del Fuego pr…

  3. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 · Alyssa Chen ·

    Chinese health authority says no need to worry about latest hantavirus outbreak

    China’s health authorities have tried to address public concern about the recent hantavirus outbreak by saying there was no cause for concern. The Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday that the country had recorded no human infections from the str…