#Ushuaia

TLDR: 7 weeks in Argentina — 6 weeks in Buenos Aires' Palermo neighborhood (walkable, great food options, easy base for day trips) and 1 week in Ushuaia (used as a gateway to Patagonia/Tierra del Fuego/Antarctica cruise).…

The BBC reports from the city of Ushuaia, where experts have been sent to investigate the origins of the outbreak.

Five hantavirus cases, three deaths, and a global cruise scare. The likely vector wasn't the ship at all. It was a Ushuaia shore excursion.

From Independent RSS Feed: Popular Argentinian tourist destination hits back at claims it caused hantavirus outbreak

Patient zero in the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak has been identified as ornithologist Leo Schilperoord, whose passion may have cost him his life.

Argentina’s tourism-dependent province — Tierra del Fuego, home to the southernmost city of Ushuaia — is reacting angrily to the idea that the deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard an Atlantic cruise ship may have emerged from its territory, pushing instead…