Hantavirus — Chile
The Araucania Health SEREMI [Regional Ministerial Secretariat] confirmed a new hantavirus death in the region. The case is a 62-year-old man, a farmer in the Angol community, who was attended on 9 Nov [2015] in the hospital in this city due to feeling ill, and then sent to the Las Higueras Hospital in Talcahuano donde where he finally died.
The sample was sent to the Molecular Virology Laboratory of the Austral University of Chile in Valdivia, where the presence of hantavirus was confirmed.
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