00:00Health officials think they've tracked down the source of the deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard
00:04the MV Hondias cruise ship. Two passengers who died from the virus likely contracted the infection
00:08while birdwatching in Argentina and then boarded the ship after being infected, spreading it to
00:13other passengers. The Dutch couple who died visited a landfill as part of a birdwatching
00:18tour near the southern tip of Argentina. Authorities believe it was there that they
00:22contracted the virus from a rodent. But there's a big hole in this theory and health officials
00:26admit it. There has never been a recorded case of the virus in the area where this couple visited.
00:32We're also learning more about how and when the virus spread on board. The Dutchman who first fell
00:37ill on April 6th died on April 11th. At the time, there was no suspicion of hantavirus. His body
00:43stayed on board for two weeks and during which his wife became ill. Now she flew with her husband's
00:48body to Johannesburg, South Africa on April 25th and she passed away the day after she arrived.
00:53Eight more people got sick over the next two weeks. Three of those who were evacuated from the ship
00:59were flown to the Netherlands for treatment, one of whom was the ship's doctor. We also learned that
01:0423 passengers left the vessel and returned home all over the world, including here in the US,
01:11two weeks ago before anyone knew what was going on and one of them is already sick. The ship itself
01:16hasn't been allowed to dock anywhere as of yet and the 150 passengers left on board so far
01:21have been thankfully asymptomatic.
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