Ground zero for the deadly rat virus which killed three cruise ship passengers is ‘almost certainly’ 1,500 miles further north of where Argentine investigators believe it started, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Official reports have claimed the lethal strain of hantavirus – the only variant which can be transmitted between humans – originated on a massive landfill and bird-watching site in the city of Ushuaia at the southern tip of Argentina.
But the MoS has discovered that ‘patient zero’, Dutch ornithologist Leo Schilperoord, 70, who boarded the MV Hondius with his wife, Mirjam, 69, had recently visited northern Patagonia, where there
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