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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.
- 2026-07-18 Confirman un caso de hantavirus en Tres Arroyos - BHInfo
- 2026-07-18 Tras la confirmación de un caso de Hantavirus en el distrito la Municipalidad de Tres Arroyos refuerza la prevención - Vía País
- 2026-07-17 Concluyen que la variante de hanta detectada en Ushuaia es diferente de los pacientes vinculados al brote - Infofueguina
- 2026-07-16 El Malbrán continúa asistiendo a diferentes países con insumos para el diagnóstico de hantavirus - Argentina.gob.ar
- 2026-07-16 Malargüe quedó descartado como foco del brote de hantavirus investigado - Diario Mendoza
- 2026-07-16 "Tandil está dentro del área endémica del Hantavirus porque tenemos el roedor vector de la enfermedad" - El diario de Tandil
- 2026-07-15 Descartan circulación de hantavirus en los roedores analizados en Malargüe - MinutoYA
- 2026-07-14 El Malbrán confirmó que los roedores capturados en Malargüe dieron negativo para hantavirus - Diario UNO
- 2026-07-08 Especialistas de la ANLIS Malbrán no identificaron hantavirus en roedores capturados en Mendoza - Argentina.gob.ar
- 2026-07-07 Un estudio detectó hantavirus en roedores de Ushuaia y reveló una nueva variante viral - Diario Río Negro
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.