UCR News: virologists explain why MV Hondius cluster does not herald sustained ANDV community spread

UC Riverside published an explainer with infectious-disease faculty contextualizing Andes virus transmission. Experts emphasize that MV Hondius cases reflect the rare, close-contact human-to-human pattern documented in the 1996 El Bolson and 2018 Epuyen outbreaks rather than airborne community spread, and that the cruise environment uniquely concentrates the close-contact conditions ANDV needs.

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