BBC News – World ·world ·1 hour ago

How worried should we be about hantavirus?

Three passengers died and four were medically evacuated from a cruise ship after a hantavirus outbreak near Argentina. Eight cases total were identified among those aboard MV Hondius. The Andes strain spreads poorly between humans and poses negligible risk to the general public, WHO said, stressing this is not a pandemic. Contact tracing continues across multiple countries.

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