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Doubts grow over theory that bird-watchers' trip to Argentine landfill sparked hantavirus outbreak

scientificamerican.com

A firsthand account challenges the official outbreak narrative, showing how early epidemiological theories can harden into dogma before the evidence actually supports them.

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Doubts grow over theory that bird-watchers' trip to Argentine landfill sparked hantavirus outbreak