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The country where lethal hantavirus cases are on the rise. Experts blame climate change

Hantavirus cases in Argentina have almost doubled in the past year, with the country recording 32 deaths alongside its highest number of infections since 2018.
The rise comes as Argentine authorities race to trace the footsteps of a couple who traveled extensively in the country and later died amid an outbreak of the virus on the cruise ship MV Hondius. The vessel left port in Ushuaia, southern Argentina, on April 1 and is currently on its way to Spain’s Canary Islands.

It is expected to reach Tenerife’s industrial port of Granadilla early Sunday morning.

Experts blame climate change and habitat destruction for the rise in cases of the disease, which is usually caused?by exposure to the urine or feces of infected rodents.

Sigh. They just can’t help linking everything to the cult

But experts believe environmental degradation caused by climate change and human activity is contributing to its spread by allowing the rodents that transmit the virus to thrive in new areas.

“Increasing human interaction with wild environments, habitat destruction, the establishment of small urbanizations in rural areas, and the effects of climate change contribute to the appearance of cases outside historically endemic areas,” the ministry said.

So, that has nothing to do with a slightly warming climate, be it anthropogenic, natural, or some combination. That is strictly land use, there being more humans and more human projects encroaching on the wild areas.

…stay there now.

Andes virus spreads through close contact with an infected person’s respiratory secretions. In Patagonia, that means family members in the same house, occasionally neighbors. The chain stops fast because there’s nobody else nearby.

The MV Hondius had 149 people from 23 countries sharing cabins, bathrooms, and dining halls for weeks. The index case was a Dutch man who spent four months driving through Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina before boarding. He boarded on April 1. WHO confirmed human-to-human transmission is likely occurring among close contacts. The ship’s own doctor got sick and was evacuated.

Here’s the part that isn’t in most of the coverage.

Signs and symptoms appear between 4 and 42 days after exposure. The outbreak wasn’t identified until May 2. That means passengers who disembarked before that date, across 23 countries, potentially incubated in silence. Contact tracing is now running across South Africa, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Saint Helena, Singapore, France, the UK, the US, and Canada. Passengers are being monitored in Arizona, Georgia, California, and at least two other US states.

Oh, and there is nothing you can really do. No treatments, no shots. And nothing to do with climate doom.