3 weeks ago - Still, several bird watchers in the area said such birds can be observed from outside the landfill, and tour guides said they were not aware of the Dutch couple visiting the area. Juan Pavlov, the secretary of foreign policy at the Tierra del Fuego Tourism Institute, said it was unlikely the virus originated in the landfill, since the truckers and garbage collectors who work at the dump site never reported any symptoms.

1 month ago - The rubbish dump loved by birdwatchers could have been where two pensioners contracted the virus

3 weeks ago - Indeed, the Schilperoords were apparently looking for a rare bird of prey called the white-throated caracara, or Darwin’s caracara, that is known to frequent the Argentine landfill where they may have contracted hantavirus. That sounds more like two passionate birders seeking to check off a rare species on their lifetime list and less like a pair of haphazard birdwatchers to me.

3 weeks ago - At a press conference on May 8, Juan Petrina, director of epidemiology for Tierra del Fuego, noted that there has never been a single recorded case of hantavirus in the province. “The scarcity of this rodent, combined with the province’s historical health status and the short period of time during which this couple may have been exposed to these rodents, greatly reduces the likelihood that the infection occurred here,” Petrina remarked. Petrina is not the only one challenging the focus on the Ushuaia garbage dump as the starting point of the cruise ship outbreak.

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3 weeks ago - ... Dutch ornithologist Leo Schilperoord and his wife Mirjam Schilperoord on March 27 visited a landfill overrun by trash and avoided even by local residents, hoping to spot the rare Darwin's caracara bird.

3 weeks ago - The ship was the diagnostic environment, the place where symptoms emerged in close enough quarters that the cluster became visible. The shore excursion was the exposure event, and the operator was outside the cruise line’s chain of custody but still became everyone’s problem. With hantavirus, ships may seem particularly risky but cases remain incredibly rare.

1 month ago - The couple visited a landfill site during the birdwatching tour, authorities said, where they may have been exposed to rodents carrying the infection. Authorities previously said that Ushuaia and the surrounding province of Tierra del Fuego ...

3 weeks ago - The couple, from the Dutch village of Haulerwijk, were seasoned bird enthusiasts who had travelled across the world documenting rare species. On March 27, after returning to Argentina, they visited the Ushuaia landfill, a site frequented by ...

1 month ago - The ministry said on May 6 that ... after it was reported that the Dutch couple may have contracted the virus during a bird-watching outing at a landfill in Ushuaia before boarding the ship....

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1 month ago - Two Argentine officials investigating the outbreak say the government’s leading hypothesis is that a Dutch couple contracted the virus during a bird-watching tour while visiting a garbage dump.

3 weeks ago - Will Jarrett/AP hide caption toggle caption Will Jarrett/AP · Argentine officials have said the couple took a bird-watching tour that included a stop at a garbage dump where they may have been exposed to rodents carrying the infection.

3 weeks ago - The couple that contracted this virus had been traveling for months in S. America bird watching. They were ages 70 and 69. They visited a South American landfill that had rodents known to carry the virus.