‘Patient Zero’: How the Hantavirus Outbreak Began with a Bird-Watcher on a Landfill

“Patient Zero” for the hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius has been identified as 70-year old Dutch ornithologist Leo Schilperoord, a passenger who made the fateful decision to go birdwatching at a landfill near the resort town of Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. The post ‘Patient Zero’: How the Hantavirus Outbreak Began with a Bird-Watcher on a Landfill appeared first on Breitbart .

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