Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to figure out if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise

The health emergency aboard the vessel coincides with a surge of hantavirus cases in Argentina, which local public health researchers attribute to the recently accelerating effects of climate change.

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 is deploying contact tracing, rodent surveillance and genomic testing to determine whether the deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard MV Hondius began there. Investigators are mapping passenger m

Health authorities of the South American nation of Argentina are working to determine whether their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has claimed several lives aboard an Atlantic cruise ship.

A deadly virus outbreak linked to an Antarctic cruise has put health officials in Argentina under pressure as investigators work to determine where passengers were exposed to hantavirus before multiple deaths were reported aboard the MV Hondius.

Two MV Hondius passengers that were killed by hantavirus likely contracted it while bird-watching in Argentina – then brought it on board the now-stranded cruise liner, according to investigators. Argentine officials now believe a Dutch couple that succumbed to the virus last month picked it up from rodents while visiting a landfill during a bird-watching tour in the city of Ushuaia in mid-March,

Argentine officials believe they’ve identified a likely source of the Hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius. According to the Associated Press, authorities suspect a Dutch couple who