<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A fresh alert has been issued from the country at the centre of the outbreak of a virus which spread on a cruise ship.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/americas/argentina" rel="" target="" title="Smarttraveller "><span>Smarttraveller</span></a><span> says hantavirus, which is spread through contact with infected rodents, "continues to be a risk in </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/argentina" rel="" target="" title="Argentina"><span>Argentina</span></a><span>, including in and around Buenos Aires and northern Patagonia."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Three people have died as part of the outbreak.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>LIVE UPDATES:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/us-israel-iran-war-live-updates-may-11-donald-trump-latest-world-news-headlines/1d665b1e-f360-4253-b442-41c8517894e7" target="_blank"><strong><span>Trump eyeing off his next military target</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/hantavirus-outbreak-update-mv-hondius-passengers-reveal-what-its-like-inside-cruise-ships-virus-purgatory/0ba23880-1210-4d8a-bce2-2376caf913a5"><strong><span>Passengers reveal what it's like inside cruise ship's virus purgatory</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Avoid contact with live or dead rodents, nests, burrows and droppings," the update says.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Hantavirus usually spreads when people inhale contaminated residue of rodent droppings, and the disease is not easily transmitted between people.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/hantavirus-warning-argentina/efd50397-c630-4ee0-acc5-8ecd083331f6" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But the Andes virus detected in the cruise ship outbreak may be able to spread between people in rare cases. Symptoms usually show between one to eight weeks after exposure.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Argentina remains a "green" country, which means to exercise "normal precautions."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>POLITICS:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/farrer-byelection-2026-results-barnaby-joyce-one-nation-looking-ahead-after-historic-win/bd333a9d-2693-45f9-aeae-bfab0da6247e" target="_blank"><strong><span>Joyce says One Nation will 'go for government' after historic win</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Officials in Argentina's Tierra del Fuego province are challenging the idea that the ongoing deadly hantavirus outbreak may have emerged there, pushing instead for investigations into the other Argentine provinces that passengers visited before boarding the ill-fated Atlantic cruise ship.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Current and former officials in the archipelago at the southernmost point of South America insist that the virus did not originate from the trash heap in Ushuaia that national health authorities named earlier this week as the most likely place two Dutch tourists contracted it while bird-watching.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/melbourne-isis-brides-bail-application-islamic-state-return-to-australia/ce833ea1-4aee-4d5a-86b6-7713129a5e7b" target="_blank"><strong><span>'ISIS brides' on slavery charges to make bid for freedom</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Meanwhile, </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/hantavirus-cruise-ship-update-mv-hondius-evacuation-canary-islands-spain/e634af59-5258-4fd1-95bf-c178e5f61128" rel="" target="" title="Australians on board the ship "><span>Australians on board the ship</span></a><span> will have to wait on the vessel, despite other passengers departing, as they await a flight home.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The four Australian citizens, one permanent resident and a </span><a href="http://9news.com.au/new-zealand" target="_blank"><span>New Zealand</span></a><span> national are expected to leave the Canary Islands, where passengers have finally begun to disembark, later today and touch down in Perth on Tuesday.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>EXCLUSIVE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/british-expat-why-she-moved-back-to-australia-after-returning-to-england/75109d3d-f00d-416b-bbd3-fdae6d0ca001" target="_blank"><strong><span>Expat Annie decided to move back to Britain. She lasted just six months</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A federal government spokesperson said Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade consular officers in Tenerife and Canberra had been closely coordinating the response while the Commonwealth and states are working through health and transport arrangements.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/hantavirus-outbreak-update-mv-hondius-passengers-reveal-what-its-like-inside-cruise-ships-virus-purgatory/0ba23880-1210-4d8a-bce2-2376caf913a5" target="" title="Three people have died since the outbreak"><span>Three people have died since the outbreak</span></a><span>, and five passengers who left the ship are infected with hantavirus, which can cause life-threatening illness.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>More cases of a deadly, rodent-borne illness could emerge in the coming weeks but the </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/hantavirus-updates-more-cases-of-virus-possible-but-risk-is-low-leading-health-body-says/6029ebdb-938a-457b-804c-ed057615fd57" rel="" target="" title='risk to public health is "low", according to the World Health Organisation.'><span>risk to public health is "low", according to the World Health Organisation.</span></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"This is not another COVID. And the risk to the public is low. So they shouldn't be scared, and they shouldn't panic," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>MONEY:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/inflation-federal-budget-iran-war-supermarket-prices-coles-woolies-groceries-cost-of-living/1fa8fbe3-7021-41c0-97ab-19394c070eb6" target="_blank"><strong><span>Inflation could hit 7 per cent. This is what it could cost you</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><em><span>NEVER MISS A STORY:</span></em></strong><span> </span><strong><em><span>Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.</span></em></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><ul><li><strong><em><span>Download the 9NEWS App here via</span></em></strong><span> </span><a href="https://apps.apple.com/au/app/9news/id1010533727" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>Apple</span></em></strong></a><span> </span><strong><em><span>and</span></em></strong><span> </span><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nineNewsAlerts.nine.com&amp;hl=en_AU&amp;pli=1" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>Google Play</span></em></strong></a></li><li><strong><em><span>Make 9News your preferred source on Google by</span></em></strong><span> </span><a href="https://9.nine.com.au/8x987w" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>ticking this box here</span></em></strong></a></li><li><strong><em><span>Sign up to</span></em></strong><span> </span><a href="https://login.nine.com.au/edm?client_id=nineatnine" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>our breaking newsletter here</span></em></strong></a></li></ul></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>- with AP</span></div></div>