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Hantaviruses are a serious viral disease transmitted by rodents.
It is common that cases of contagion to hantavirus occur each year in the countries of South America, including Brazil . But a fatal epidemic in the south of Argentina drew attention.
From last December to last Saturday (12), ten people died. One of them was a 29-year-old Chilean who had contracted hantavirus in Argentina, according to "BBC News Brazil".
According to the latest report from the Ministry of Health in Chubut, a region of southern Argentina, 28 people have been infected.
What is worrying about this outbreak is not just the high number of deaths, but the suspicion that all infected people have contracted the disease from other people.
Most often, it is contagion. occurs directly from the inhalation of urine particles, feces and saliva from wild rodents – and not through contact with other infected humans. Therefore, cases of the disease are usually isolated.
What is surprising in the case of Argentina is the high concentration of cases of the disease in the same locality and
The deceased persons knew each other and many of them belonged to the same family.
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