Argentina probes link to deadly hantavirus outbreak on Atlantic cruise

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Argentina probes link to deadly hantavirus outbreak on Atlantic cruise

Issued on: 07/05/2026 - 11:38

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Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to determine if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise. The health emergency aboard the ship that's moored across the ocean comes as Argentina sees a surge of hantavirus cases that many local public health researchers attribute to the recently accelerating effects of climate change. Argentina, where the cruise to Antarctica departed, is consistently ranked by the World Health Organization as having the highest incidence of the rare, rodent-borne disease in Latin America.

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