Overview
- Health authorities say the outbreak began during a multi‑week cruise that left Ushuaia in early April and has resulted in multiple infections and three deaths linked to the ship.
- The World Health Organization reported a newly confirmed Dutch crew infection on Friday, bringing the total number of confirmed or suspected ship‑related cases to 12.
- More than 120 passengers and crew were repatriated from Tenerife and remain under isolation and medical monitoring while one recently positive crew member is hospitalized in isolation in the Netherlands.
- Two close contacts treated in a Munich clinic have been moved to supervised home quarantine and local health offices stress that prolonged close contact is the documented route for human‑to‑human spread of the Andes strain.
- Argentine researchers from the Malbran Institute are trapping and sampling rodents in Tierra del Fuego to test whether the presumed index patient contracted the virus on land, and results are expected in about four weeks.