Investigators set traps with blue protective gloves and surgical masks in the forests around the southernmost city of Ushuaia, from where the ship with passengers sailed, and collected more dead rats in the mud. icon-chevron-right 1 6 icon-chevron-right Trapping rats in Ushuaia AP Trapping rats in Ushuaia AP Trapping rats in Ushuaia AP Trapping rats in Ushuaia AP Trapping rats in Ushuaia AP The procedure will be repeated in the coming days, and the samples will then be sent to a laboratory in Buenos Aires, where they will be tested for hantavirus. The first results should be known in a month, but Argentine investigators are keeping quiet about additional details of the investigation.
Trapping rats is only the first part of a large-scale field investigation that was introduced by the Argentine health authorities.
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