{"id":12008,"date":"2026-05-13T20:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=12008"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:23:25","slug":"hantavirus-outbreaks-could-become-more-likely-as-virus-carrying-rodents-expand-their-range-model-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/05\/13\/hantavirus-outbreaks-could-become-more-likely-as-virus-carrying-rodents-expand-their-range-model-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Hantavirus outbreaks could become more likely as virus-carrying rodents expand their range, model finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/viruses-infections-disease\/hantavirus-outbreaks-could-become-more-likely-as-virus-carrying-rodents-expand-their-range-model-finds\">Live Science<\/a> New models chart how virus-carrying rodents may spread across Argentina as climate change reshapes weather patterns. New models chart how virus-carrying rodents may spread across Argentina as climate change reshapes weather patterns. Climate change is likely to shift the distribution of virus-carrying rodents, potentially increasing the risk of spillover, when viruses make the jump from animals to humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will likely expose populations to diseases that they haven&#8217;t encountered before and raise the risk of outbreaks, researchers warn.<a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/live\/hantivirus-cruise-tuesday-may-12\"><u>hantavirus cluster on the cruise ship MV Hondius<\/u><\/a>\u00a0has put the rodent-borne disease into the global spotlight. While countries in South America, especially Argentina and Chile, have been dealing with hantavirus for decades, there&#8217;s been a recent uptick in infections, according to the Argentine ministry of health. More than 100 cases of hantavirus disease were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.argentina.gob.ar\/noticias\/actualizacion-del-boletin-epidemiologico-nacional-de-la-semana-ndeg-16\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"recorded between June 2025 and early May 2026, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>recorded between June 2025 and early May 2026<\/u><\/a>, roughly double the number recorded in the previous year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/viruses-infections-disease\/what-is-hantavirus-the-rare-but-deadly-respiratory-illness-spread-by-rodents\">Hantaviruses<\/a>\u00a0are a family of rodent-borne viruses found across the Americas, Europe and Asia. &#8220;New world&#8221; hantaviruses cause hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS), characterized by headache, fever and gastrointestinal symptoms, followed by potentially life-threatening respiratory problems. The Andes virus, responsible for the cluster of cases associated with the MV Hondius, is the only hantavirus known to be transmissible between people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continue reading<\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"dViAIOsEp hUmVf   ZWyG qP \">dViAIOsEp hUmVf   ZWyG qP <\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Science New models chart how virus-carrying rodents may spread across Argentina as climate change reshapes weather patterns. New models chart how virus-carrying rodents may spread across Argentina as climate change reshapes weather patterns. Climate change is likely to shift the distribution of virus-carrying rodents, potentially increasing the risk of spillover, when viruses make the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":12009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-13-at-21.15.46.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12010,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12008\/revisions\/12010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}