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I tracked down all the eBird checklists from patient zero of the Ushuaia ANDV hantavirus outbreak.
Incubation of the virus is 1-8 weeks so I located any checklist within ~9 weeks of patient zero’s first reported symptoms (Apr 6). Overlayed on part of Chile is a map of localities of certain ANDV strains from Medina et al. 2009. Northwestern Argentina also has many occurrences of closely related strains of ANDV. Since this hantavirus is not known in Tierra del Fuego and hantavirus is most commonly acquired in enclosed spaces, it seems unlikely he picked it up at the Ushuaia landfill.
He was not a terribly regular ebird user and you can’t see his checklists on his profile, you have to find them randomly by google searches.
u/Kingofthewho5 — 12 days ago