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Upon notification, international health authorities implemented containment measures, such as contact tracing, quarantine, and isolation. Uniquely, ANDV poses distinctive risks due to its immediately prodromal presymptomatic transmission potential, initial non-specific flu-like symptoms, prolonged incubation period, conceivable long-term neurologic and endocrinologic sequalae, high case fatality rates (CFRs), and possibility of international dissemination. This report describes the successful management of a multi-national outbreak associated with cruise-ship travel, a setting with unique challenges. It also examines implications and challenges for prehospital, health care facility, and public health systems for future ANDV outbreaks. The event was characterized by delayed recognition, international spread, and complex coordination across multiple jurisdictions and sectors, including medical and public health authorities, policy- and decision-makers, crisis and emergency risk-communication experts, media, logistics, transportation, and security. Rapid implementation of public health measures coupled with clinician implementation of the Identify-Isolate-Inform (3I) model, a clinical framework to detect and prevent the spread of infectious disease, at the prehospital and health care facility levels are critical actions that can contain future ANDV outbreaks.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/s1049023x26109108","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,1]],"date-time":"2026-10-01T12:02:47Z","timestamp":1790856167000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/policypage","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Multi-Country Human-to-Human Andes Virus Outbreak on a Cruise Ship: A Disaster Report on Prehospital, Health Care Facility, and Public Health System Challenges \u2013 Essential Knowledge for Frontline Clinicians"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"41","author":[{"given":"Aileen M.","family":"Marty","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Florida International University"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christian K.","family":"Be\u00ff","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of California"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9626-0442","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kristi L.","family":"Koenig","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"County of San Diego, Emergency Medical Services Office, Public Safety Group \u2013 San Diego County Fire"},{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/04gyf1771","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"University of California Irvine"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"S1049023X26109108_ref41","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1210\/jc.2008-0311"},{"key":"S1049023X26109108_ref27","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3390\/v15112266"},{"key":"S1049023X26109108_ref3","unstructured":"3. 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