A historical cross-border Andes virus lineage reveals the origin of a cruise ship hantavirus pulmonary syndrome outbreak
Hade Ramos, Constanza Díaz-Gavidia, Dianne Díaz-Ramírez, Eugenia Fuentes-Luppichini, Jens H. Kuhn, Carla Bellomo, Andreas Schüller, Raul R. Araya-Secchi, Daniel Marcelo Cisterna, Luciana Fernandez-Bettelli, Santiago Palacios-Aliggi, Valeria P. Martínez, Marcela Ferrés G, Piet Maes, Gustavo F. Palacios, , Jenniffer Angulo
The paper traces the origin of a cruise ship hantavirus pulmonary syndrome outbreak to a specific geographic corridor in the Andes using genomic analysis of Andes virus sequences.
bioRxiv · Jul 30, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology