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News articles and global event mentions tagged to Argentina in the last 30 days. Pulled live from GDELT 2.0 and Google News RSS across 30 country-localised locales. We display titles and links; full article text remains with the publishers.
- 2026-06-03 Hantavirus: 47 casos confirmados en Argentina en 2026 y La Rioja no registra casos - Medios Rioja
- 2026-06-03 Suben los casos de hantavirus y el país ya registra 47 contagios en 2026 - DelSur Diario
- 2026-06-03 Suman 47 los casos de hantavirus detectados en el país en 2026 - El Zonda
- 2026-06-03 Tome precauciones con el hantavirus. Una muerte en Colorado por hantavirus este año y el reciente brote en un crucero han puesto la atención en esta infección rara y potencialmente mortal. - UCHealth
- 2026-06-03 Enfermedades: Alerta oficial por la gravedad y aumento de virus respiratorios, hepatitis y hantavirus - Urgente24
- 2026-06-03 El hantavirus sumó dos casos nuevos y llegó a 47 contagios en 2026 - Telesol Diario
- 2026-06-03 Hantavirus: confirmaron un caso en Arrecifes y ya suman 47 contagios en lo que va del año - La Opinion Online
- 2026-06-03 Alerta por hantavirus: detectaron dos nuevos casos y ya suman 47 en lo que va de 2026 - Ambito
- 2026-06-03 Detectaron dos nuevos casos de hantavirus en Argentina - Radio 3 Cadena Patagonia
- 2026-06-03 Hantavirus en Argentina: ya van 47 casos este año - LA17
Argentina is the historical heartland of Andes virus, the only hantavirus species with documented person-to-person transmission. Cases concentrate along the Andean spine and Patagonian forest belt, with three endemic clusters and a marked uptick through 2025–2026.
Three endemic clusters
Andean Patagonia (Río Negro, Chubut, Neuquén) — forest-edge exposure, highest CFR. Northwest (Salta, Jujuy) — agricultural exposure during sugarcane harvest. Central / Pampean (Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos) — mixed rural and peri-urban exposure.
The 2026 cruise outbreak
On 8 May 2026 the WHO confirmed six suspected Andes-virus cases on a transatlantic cruise that had departed Buenos Aires three weeks earlier. Three passengers died. Genomic sequencing tied the cluster to a clade circulating in Río Negro — the largest documented Andes-virus person-to-person event in twenty years.
Risk for travellers
Most travellers face negligible hantavirus risk. The handful of historical traveller-acquired cases involved overnight stays in rustic cabins or refugios in Andean Patagonia between October and April, where rodent waste in poorly ventilated buildings creates aerosolisable exposure.