{Summary}
The May 2026 multinational outbreak of Andes virus infection linked to cruise ship travel has appropriately focused public health attention on case identification, quarantine, contact tracing, and prevention of secondary transmission. Although the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) have emphasized that the general public risk remains low, the outbreak is relevant to transfusion medicine because Andes virus (Orthohantavirus andesense, also known as Andes hantavirus) occupies an unusual position among hantaviruses. Hantaviruses are enveloped, negative-sense RNA viruses in the family Hantaviridae that are maintained primarily in rodent and other small mammal reservoirs.
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Link: https://www.trasci.com/article/S1473-0502(26)00087-X/abstract
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