Hantavirus 'Patient Zero' Identified as Leo Schilperoord — Investigators Shift Focus to New Location in Cruise Ship Outbreak

Dutch health authorities investigating a hantavirus outbreak linked to a cruise ship have identified a 70-year-old ornithologist as the suspected first case in the cluster. Leo Schilperoord and his wife, Mirjam Schilperoord, both from the Dutch village of Haulerwijk, had been travelling across South America for several months before boarding the expedition cruise ship MV Hondius in Argentina in April.