• Three passengers have died and four were medically evacuated after a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship that departed from Argentina.
  • Authorities are tracing potentially exposed individuals who have flown home to multiple countries, including the UK, South Africa, the Netherlands, the US, and Switzerland.
  • WHO stresses the risk to the general public remains low and the virus does not spread easily like flu or COVID-19.
  • The Andes strain of hantavirus is believed responsible, with human-to-human transmission possible only through very close contact.

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