"Ebola virus, hantavirus and the pathogen that causes Covid-19 likely jumped from animals to humans. So do these viruses — and scientists say climate change is speeding their spread."
"By the time colleagues called Dr. Matías Lahitte, an Argentine infectious disease specialist, it was too late.
The patient they asked him to examine last month was a 65-year-old woman from Rosario, Argentina’s third-largest city. She had a high fever, muscle pain and fatigue. A blood test indicated her white-blood cell and platelet counts were dangerously low.
Less than a week later, she was dead.
Test results revealed that she had contracted Argentine hemorrhagic fever, or A.H.F., a rare but serious disease carried by rodents that both the United States and Soviet Union once researched as a potential agent for biological weapons."
