Argentina hantavirus outbreak linked to ‘super-spreader’ events: Researchers – Outbreak News Today

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63
“Super-spreader” events and extensive person-to-person contact propelled an outbreak of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in a small village in Argentina from 2018-2019, according to research published today in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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In the paper, an international scientific team reports the genetic, clinical, and epidemiologic features of the outbreak caused by the Andes virus, a member of the hantavirus family. The…

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