Key facts
- Argentina is expanding its investigation into a hantavirus outbreak.
- Argentine and US scientists will test rodents in Mendoza.
- The outbreak has resulted in three deaths.
- The goal is to trace the source of the hantavirus.
Argentina is intensifying its investigation into a hantavirus outbreak, with Argentine and US scientists deploying to the Mendoza region. Teams will be responsible for trapping and testing rodents, which are known carriers of the hantavirus. This expanded probe aims to gather more data on the virus's prevalence and transmission patterns within the local rodent population to trace the source of the outbreak, which has already caused three deaths.