Argentina investigates link to deadly hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship
Three deaths reported from South America-related hantavirus as cruise ship remains off Cape Verde coast.
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Argentine health authorities are investigating whether their country is the source of a hantavirus outbreak on an Atlantic cruise ship that has killed three people and sickened eight others. The Ministry of Health plans to send experts to Ushuaia in southern Argentina to capture and test rodents in areas connected to the route taken by a Dutch couple who died from the virus, along with a German national. The cruise ship departed for Spain on Wednesday after being stuck off Cape Verde's coast, with health officials stating that public risk remains low since hantavirus spreads much more slowly than COVID-19 and requires very close physical contact for human-to-human transmission.