Reacción a "Three people die in connection with a possible hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship that departed from Argentina"

When hearing about outbreaks on cruise ships, we tend to think of other diseases like COVID-19 or norovirus.  Hantavirus is rarely associated with this setting, and person-to-person spread of the virus is also unusual.

Given the ship came from South America, it’s plausible that the Andes strain of the virus may be responsible for this outbreak.  There is previous reporting of person-to-person transmission from the Andes strain, though it’s not yet certain whether that’s the case here.  PCR testing would be needed to confirm whether this is the Andes strain.