Health authorities are still trying to determine where the infection originated. They believe one of the Dutch couple who contracted the virus and died are likely to be “patient zero”.<\/p>\n
Officials have attempted to reconstruct their journey through Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, before they boarded the ship in Ushuaia, largely using border entry and exit records. <\/p>\n
Chilean and Uruguayan authorities say the couple did not contract the virus in those countries, based on the World Health Organization’s estimated incubation period of between one and eight weeks.<\/p>\n
Petrina agreed that they most likely contracted the illness in Argentina, but said he believed it was probably two to four weeks before the cruise. It could have been in a mountainous region in Patagonia, he said, perhaps in the provinces of Chubut, Neuqu\u00e9n or R\u00edo Negro.<\/p>\n
The National Ministry of Health, meanwhile, has not put forward a definitive theory. “We cannot rule out, in principle, that the infections occurred in Tierra del Fuego, but there is an important fact to consider: since Hantavirus became a notifiable disease, no cases have ever been reported in the province,” it said.<\/p>\n
It is hoped that the evacuation of the passengers and the crew from the MV Hondius in Tenerife might yet yield some clues.<\/p>\n
But for now, without the Dutch couple to fill in the gaps and officials unable to fully reconstruct their travels, many questions about how this outbreak started remain unanswered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health authorities are still trying to determine where the infection originated. They believe one of the Dutch couple…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-951259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116552474787703875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}