Key facts
- Argentina is expanding its investigation into a hantavirus outbreak.
- Biologists from the U.S. CDC will join the mission in Mendoza.
- Teams will trap and test rodents to understand transmission.
- The outbreak has caused three deaths.
Argentina is intensifying its investigation into a hantavirus outbreak, with Argentine authorities announcing that biologists from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will join the mission next week in Mendoza. 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.