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Weeks ago, passengers on a luxury Antarctic cruise began showing symptoms of the Andes strain of hantavirus, which can be life-threatening and — in rare cases — transmitted from person to person. Now, after three confirmed hantavirus deaths and several other suspected cases, roughly 150 passengers remain stranded at sea on the MV Hondius. Andrew Chang breaks down the Andes strain and what we know so far about how everything unfolded. Intro - 00:00 Emergency at sea - 01:02 Strains, symptoms and spread - 04:59 (Photo credits: The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock and Getty Images) »»» Subscribe to CBC News to watch more videos: http://bit.ly/1RreYWS For breaking news, video, audio and in-depth coverage: https://www.cbc.ca/news Follow CBC News on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cbcnews Subscribe to CBC News on Snapchat: https://bit.ly/3leaWsr Subscribe to CBC News on WhatsApp: https://www.whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb6MSjH9Bb63S9tbQa1Y Download the CBC News app for iOS: http://apple.co/25mpsUz Download the CBC News app for Android: http://bit.ly/1XxuozZ »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» For more than 80 years, CBC News has been the source Canadians turn to, to keep them informed about their communities, their country and their world. Through regional and national programming on multiple platforms, including CBC Television, CBC News Network, CBC Radio, CBCNews.ca, mobile and on-demand, CBC News and its internationally recognized team of award-winning journalists deliver the breaking stories, the issues, the analyses and the personalities that matter to Canadians.