The World Health Organization says it is using contact tracing to determine how hantavirus spread so quickly.
Israel has confirmed its first human case of hantavirus.
Over 2,500 hantavirus diagnostic kits are reportedly being shipped from Argentina labs to five nations.
An international team of scientists is currently working to develop a vaccine for hantavirus following a deadly outbreak on a cruise ship.
WHO says Hantavirus "public risk is low" and confirms that 5 of the current 8 cruise ship virus cases have been confirmed as Andes Hantavirus, with 3 suspected cases, and adds that "incubation period is up to 6 weeks, it's possible that more cases may be reported."
Report says 12 other countries have been contacted by WHO, as they received passengers from MV Hondius who disembarked at earlier stages of the cruise, ship is now sailing to Canary Islands with WHO expert and 2 doctors, upon arrival passengers will fly to their respective countries.
WHO's Maria Van Kerkhove on Hantavirus: "This is not coronavirus, this is a very different virus… This is not the start of a COVID pandemic."
The deadly hantavirus outbreak is believed to have originated in a remote Argentinian town known as “the end of the world” and is now triggering international alarm as health officials race to trace exposed travelers across multiple countries.
Passengers exposed to a deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard an international cruise ship reportedly returned to Texas and Virginia before health officials even knew the virus was spreading onboard.
Health officials are sounding the alarm as hantavirus cases continue spreading, prompting renewed mask-up warnings and growing concerns over a rare strain capable of limited human-to-human transmission. Multiple deaths linked to the outbreak have already been reported aboard an international cruise ship.