fatality
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This is a very high fatality rate—much higher than deaths caused by the virus behind Covid-19—but the virus is less contagious.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
The fatality rate of the virus, commonly cited as around 40 percent, could also be quite different outside of rural areas of Argentina where there may be little health infrastructure, Flahault added.
From Barron's • May 13, 2026
Found in Argentina and Chile, the Andes strain is unique among hantaviruses in that it can be spread between humans and has a high fatality rate of about 35%.
From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026
And the fatality rate is a sizeable multiple of the national average.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
“You have an instant fatality that leaves no marks on the skeletal remains. Unfortunately, the soft tissues that would show us what happened have decomposed in the past hundred years.”
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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