Graphic and headline: MedPage Today, 5/5/2026\
Kristina Fiore reports:
Infectious disease experts suspect that Andes virus, a type of hantavirus that causes cardiopulmonary syndrome, is responsible for an outbreak aboard a small cruise ship that has killed three people and potentially infected at least four others.
Andes virus, which is found in Argentina and other South American countries, has been shown to transmit from person to person.
"I think it's likely that this is going to turn out to be Andes virus and there may have been a cluster of human-to-human transmission," James Lawler, MD, MPH, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center's Global Center for Health Security in Omaha, told MedPage Today. [emphasis added]
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