A Dutch ornithologist is suspected of being the “patient zero” in the hantavirus outbreak that has spread among passengers aboard a cruise ship. But how and where did he come into contact with the virus?

PATIENT zero of the deadly cruise ship rat virus outbreak has been identified as a Dutch bird watcher. Ornithologist Leo Schilperoord, 70, boarded the MV Hondius with his wife after making a

The ornithologists decided to visit a landfill four miles outside of Ushuaia, considered a pilgrimage point for birdwatchers, later thought to be the place where they contracted hantavirus.

A Dutch ornithologist's fatal visit to a landfill in Argentina is being traced as the start of the MV Hondius hantavirus cluster. Authorities believe he contracted the Andes strain of hantavirus by inhaling virus particles from rat droppings at the landfill,

The WHO’s main hypothesis is that patient zero was infected on land and passed the virus to other people on board

Leo Schilperoord, a 70-year-old Dutch ornithologist, has been identified as Hantavirus patient zero after visiting a rat-infested landfill in Argentina.

Patient zero of the outbreak has been identified.