USHUAIA, Argentina, May 8 (Reuters) – Patients on a luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak could not have been infected in Argentina’s southernmost Tierra del Fuego province, said Juan Petrina, director of epidemiology and environmental health for the province, during a press conference on Friday.
Petrina said the conclusion was based on the time frame between the patients’ time in the province and the onset of symptoms.
“The calculations don’t add up for them to have been infected in our province … the possibility is practically nil,” Petrina said.
(Reporting by Horacio Soria in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina; Writing by Leila Miller; Editing by Brendan O”Boyle)
