 Although hantavirus infections are prevalent in the United States, there currently are very few recorded cases of HPS due to infection from the Andes virus in the United States and the rest of North America; however, there have been several cases reported in Chile and Argentina.HCPS as a result of "Andes orthohantavirus" infection has a case fatality rate of about 25–35% in Argentina and 37% in Chile.ANDV, lineage ANDV-Sout, is the only hantavirus for which person-to-person transmission has been described; all other human hantavirus infections are transmitted exclusively from animals to humans.