The Doctor Who Traced the Last Large Outbreak of Hantavirus in Patagonia: “It Has No Pandemic Potential”

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Chilean specialist Gaspar Domínguez, who coordinated the response to the Hantavirus outbreak in the town of Epuyén in 2019, describes how the infection occurs, how it spreads, what it does to the patient and how it can be treated.

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That 2018 marked a before and after in the well-known history of hantavirus in Argentina. An outbreak detected in Epuyén, in Patagonia, in which 34 cases were recorded, with 11 deaths, showed the doctors the worst face of a disease that keeps the world alive after the focus emerged on the cruise ship MV Hondius. The Patagonia outbreak, explains El Periódico de Catalunya, from Buenos Aires, Dr. Fernando Ríos, president of the Argentine Society of…