Tag: hantavirus

• Monday, May 4th 2026 - 01:45 UTC

  Three dead in hantavirus outbreak aboard polar cruise ship from Ushuaia bound for Cape Verde

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed three deaths on Sunday aboard the polar cruise ship MV Hondius from a hantavirus outbreak, a disease typically transmitted through rodents. The vessel, operated by the Dutch company Oceanwide Expeditions, had set sail from the port of Ushuaia, in Argentina's Tierra del Fuego province, on March 20, bound for the port of Praia in Cape Verde, where its journey was scheduled to conclude on May 4.

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• Friday, January 25th 2019 - 10:07 UTC

  Hantavirus outbreak in Argentine Patagonia: WHO news alert

  

  At least eleven people have died in Argentina after becoming infected with hantavirus, a disease carried by rats and other rodents, according to a news alert from the World Health Organization (WHO).

• Thursday, May 9th 2013 - 12:26 UTC

  Outbreak of mice-vector hemorrhagic fever in Argentina; attacks in rural areas

  

  A 31-yeaar old farm hand died and a 12-year old adolescent has been hospitalized in the province of Santa Fe following an outbreak of Argentine hemorrhagic fever (FHA) caused by the viral agent Junin and transmitted by camp mice.

• Thursday, February 9th 2012 - 07:30 UTC

  Hantavirus public alert in Chile after outbreak kills three people, infects ten others

  

  Chile declared a public health alert this week over a hantavirus outbreak that has killed three people and infected at least 10 others and which have been blame of the wildfires of a very hot summer.