Dutch ornithologist Leo Schilperoord, whose lifelong quest for the rare and the beautiful ended in a global health emergency, has been identified as patient zero in the deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard the expedition cruise ship MV Hondius, according to Argentine authorities.
Authorities believe the 70-year-old and his wife, Mirjam Schilperoord, 69, contracted the virus during a birdwatching visit to a landfill outside Ushuaia in late March.
