Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 1997)

An Unusual Hantavirus Outbreak in Southern Argentina: Person-to-Person Transmission?

  • Rachel M. Wells,
  • Sergio Sosa Estani,
  • Zaida E. Yadon,
  • Delia Enria,
  • Paula Padula,
  • Noemi Pini,
  • James N. Mills,
  • Clarence J. Peters,
  • Elsa L. Segura

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0302.970210
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 2
pp. 171 – 174

Abstract

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Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is a rodent-borne zoonosis first recognized in the United States in 1993. Person-to-person transmission has not been reported; however, in the outbreak of 20 cases reported here, epidemiologic evidence strongly suggests this route of transmission.

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