Argentina tourist hotspot denies causing hantavirus outbreak | BBC News

The Argentinian city of Ushuaia is facing suggestions that it could be ground zero for the hantavirus outbreak on the Dutch vessel MV Hondius.

Three people have died following the outbreak on the ship, including two of the six people whom the World Health Organization has confirmed have had hantavirus.

The other confirmed cases include two British nationals, who are being treated in the Netherlands and South Africa.

Hantavirus is a group of viruses carried by rodents. Most do not pass from person to person, but the Andes strain identified in a number of people who had been on the Dutch cruise ship, does.

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