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Jorge Diaz, an epidemiologist with Chubut Province's health department who worked on the Epuyen hantavirus outbreak, told AFP that "we knew very little about the disease" in 2018.

Human-to-human transmission of hantavirus was first discovered in 1996 in the neighboring town of El Bolson, and it was later found to have happened in Epuyen.

Hantavirus cases in Argentina have almost doubled in the past year, with the country recording 32 deaths alongside its highest number of infections since 2018.

The current season, which started in June 2025, has already seen more than 100 confirmed hantavirus cases, Argentina's health ministry said — compared with just 57 during the same period last season.

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