News of tierra del fuego

In Tierra del Fuego, a hunt for the rodent carrier of hantavirus

Yesterday 12:58 Scientific search for rodents that may be hantavirus carriers starts.

Scientists head south for hantavirus fact-finding probe

14-05-2026 15:05 Experts to investigate whether there is hantavirus circulating in Ushuaia from next week; Results expected in four weeks.

HANTAVIRUS HEALTH SCARE

Ushuaia tries to shrug off hantavirus suspicions

12-05-2026 15:03 Ushuaia, Argentina's city "at the end of the world," is labouring under suspicion of being the source of the deadly hantavirus outbreak

Hantavirus scare

Health official: 'Almost zero' chance Dutch man got hantavirus in Ushuaia

08-05-2026 18:03 Tierra del Fuego epidemiology director Juan Petrina says that the likelihood that the Dutch man linked to the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship contracted the disease in the port city of Ushuaia is "almost zero.”

CRUISE SHIP DRAMA

Expert: ‘Unlikely’ cruise ship hantavirus outbreak originated in Ushuaia

05-05-2026 15:52 A health expert in southern Tierra del Fuego Province says it’s “unlikely” that the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship originated in Ushuaia, from where the vessel departed.

US DELEGATION IN USHUAIA

US delegation's visit to Patagonia draws criticism from opposition

27-01-2026 10:15 Visit by a group of United States lawmakers to Ushuaia, Argentina’s southernmost city, draws criticism from Peronist opposition; US Embassy confirms congressional delegation visited Tierra del Fuego to discuss energy and mining issues.

TIERRA DEL FUEGO

Patagonian province on war footing over Milei’s threat to industry

22-05-2025 16:06 Residents of the far-south province of Tierra del Fuego are fighting to save their jobs after President Milei delivered a blow to its local manufacturing activity.