By Leila Miller BUENOS AIRES, May 6 (Reuters) – Argentina’s health ministry will carry out rodent trapping and analysis in the southern city of Ushuaia, the origin point of a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak, it said in a statement on Wednesday. Officials are always reconstructing the itinerary of Dutch citizens who […]
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Argentina to test rodents at origin point of hantavirus-hit cruise ship
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By Leila Miller
BUENOS AIRES, May 6 (Reuters) – Argentina’s health ministry will carry out rodent trapping and analysis in the southern city of Ushuaia, the origin point of a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak, it said in a statement on Wednesday.
Officials are always reconstructing the itinerary of Dutch citizens who traveled in Argentina and Chile and later presented symptoms of hantavirus on the cruise, the statement said.
(Reporting by Leila Miller; editing by Cassandra Garrison)