Monday, 16 May 2016

PRO/AH/EDR> Hantavirus update - Americas (26): Argentina (BA)

Hantavirus -- Argentina
The death of a 35-year-old man from [a] hantavirus [infection] is generating worry in the Junin area of Buenos Aires [province]. There is an attempt to determine whether the victim contracted the disease in this city or whether it happened on one of his trips, because he worked as a truck driver.
Tests done at the Instituto Maiztegui in Pergamino finally confirmed that the man died of [a] hantavirus [infection] and not of dengue, as was believed earlier, according to the local newspaper La

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