Andes

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Because of the potential for transmission, suspected Andes virus infections require strict infection prevention and control measures.

From Science Daily • Jun. 22, 2026

Mineral extraction projects looking for copper, lithium and more have proliferated across the Argentine Andes.

From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026

The Andes virus, that was spread on the cruise ship, is a strain of the hantavirus that’s spread from human to human.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

Hantavirus doesn’t usually spread between humans, but the Andes strain can with prolonged exposure.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

Those homelands were the Fertile Crescent and China in Eurasia, and the Andes and Amazonia, Mesoamerica, and the eastern United States in the Americas.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond