“The search for a rare bird on a waste heap in Argentina turned out to be fatal”: reconstruction of the source of the hantavirus

It started as the ultimate expedition to the South Pole, but it ended in an international manhunt for a deadly virus. While a Dutch couple returned home in coffins and two Flemish people floated in fear at sea, the world holds its breath: is this the start of something much bigger? We reconstructed the fatal voyage of cruise ship MV Hondius from day to day. “Patients go from ‘a little’ to life-threateningly ill in the blink of an eye.”

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