The strain of hantavirus that has killed three people and sickened five others on a cruise ship is the Andes strain, which is typically found in South America including parts of Argentina, where the ...

Cases of the Andes virus have been rising in Argentina. Government-supported research is critical if we hope to address ...

Recent outbreaks and cruise ship exposures are renewing the debate over whether current Andes virus precautions adequately address possible respiratory spread.

The Andes hantavirus is a rare but highly dangerous rodent-borne virus found primarily in South America. Unlike most ...

In 2018, health authorities in southern Argentina were scrambling, trying to understand what had caused nearly three dozen people in the tiny village of Epuyen to fall gravely ill. By the end of the ...

A hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship raises concerns, but experts say the human-to-human Andes virus is inefficiently ...

For many people, news of a virus outbreak on a cruise ship immediately brings back memories of COVID spreading when the Ruby Princess docked in Sydney in March 2020. Of the passengers and crew who ...

While human-to-human transmission of the Andes hantavirus is uncommon, it is still possible, according to the World Health Organization, which contradicts online posts that claim it can only spread ...

Why do the Andes exist? Why is it not a place of lowlands or narrow seas? A geophysicist has been pondering these questions for more than a decade. Now, he has found the answers using an advanced ...

The strain of hantavirus that has killed three people and sickened five others on a cruise ship is the Andes strain, which is typically found in South America including parts of Argentina, where the ...