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Scientists head south for hantavirus fact-finding probe

Today 15:05 Experts to investigate whether there is hantavirus circulating in Ushuaia from next week; Results expected in four weeks.

HANTAVIRUS HEALTH SCARE

Ushuaia tries to shrug off hantavirus suspicions

12-05-2026 15:03 Ushuaia, Argentina's city "at the end of the world," is labouring under suspicion of being the source of the deadly hantavirus outbreak

Hantavirus scare

Health official: 'Almost zero' chance Dutch man got hantavirus in Ushuaia

08-05-2026 18:03 Tierra del Fuego epidemiology director Juan Petrina says that the likelihood that the Dutch man linked to the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship contracted the disease in the port city of Ushuaia is "almost zero.”

HEALTH

Health Ministry says experts will travel to Ushuaia to test rodents for hantavirus

06-05-2026 18:35 Argentina to send experts to Ushuaia to investigate possible hantavirus in rodents in wake of cruise ship tragedy.

CRUISE SHIP DRAMA

Expert: ‘Unlikely’ cruise ship hantavirus outbreak originated in Ushuaia

05-05-2026 15:52 A health expert in southern Tierra del Fuego Province says it’s “unlikely” that the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship originated in Ushuaia, from where the vessel departed.

CRUISE SHIP DISASTER

'Low' risk to public of hantavirus after cruise ship deaths, WHO says

04-05-2026 14:19 Suspected outbreak of hantavirus on a cruise ship presents a low risk to the public, the World Health Organization said Monday.

TROUBLE DOWN SOUTH

Governor cries foul as Milei puts Ushuaia port under trusteeship

28-01-2026 23:05 Tierra del Fuego Governor Gustavo Melella links move to “geopolitical factors”; Operating licence suspended and port placed under trusteeship for year as federal agency cites mismanagement at country’s southernmost port.

US DELEGATION IN USHUAIA

US delegation's visit to Patagonia draws criticism from opposition

27-01-2026 10:15 Visit by a group of United States lawmakers to Ushuaia, Argentina’s southernmost city, draws criticism from Peronist opposition; US Embassy confirms congressional delegation visited Tierra del Fuego to discuss energy and mining issues.

ARGENTINA

Argentina intervenes at Ushuaia port amid funds misuse probe

26-01-2026 18:03 Operating licence suspended and port placed under trusteeship for a year as federal agency cites diversion of revenues, safety risks and chronic underinvestment at country’s southernmost port.

News of ushuaia

Scientists head south for hantavirus fact-finding probe

Ushuaia tries to shrug off hantavirus suspicions

Health official: 'Almost zero' chance Dutch man got hantavirus in Ushuaia

Health Ministry says experts will travel to Ushuaia to test rodents for hantavirus

Expert: ‘Unlikely’ cruise ship hantavirus outbreak originated in Ushuaia

'Low' risk to public of hantavirus after cruise ship deaths, WHO says

Governor cries foul as Milei puts Ushuaia port under trusteeship

US delegation's visit to Patagonia draws criticism from opposition

Argentina intervenes at Ushuaia port amid funds misuse probe

World Health Organization confirms eight cases of Andes hantavirus in outbreak

Health body investigating hantavirus hit by fresh Milei budget cuts

Uruguay, Argentina seek compromise on hydrogen plant

Argentina's federal courts smell blood, activates Milei government corruption cases

Trump posts graphic of Venezuela as 51st US state

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