Ushuaia, Argentina, May 12, 2026 (AFP) - Fabled Argentine city Ushuaia tries to shrug off virus suspicions

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2026-05-12

Argentina's city "at the end of the world," Ushuaia, the jump-off point for expeditions to the Antarctic, is laboring under suspicion of being the source of the deadly hantavirus outbreak that killed three cruise ship passengers. The MV Hondius set sail from this spectacular Patagonian port, sandwiched between snow-capped mountains and the South Atlantic, on April 1. Five days later, a Dutch man who had travelled through South America on a birdw......

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