‘Patient zero’ of deadly rat virus outbreak revealed as bird watcher who visited landfill branded ‘the end of the world’

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The Sun

PATIENT zero of the deadly cruise ship rat virus outbreak has been identified as a Dutch bird watcher. Ornithologist Leo Schilperoord, 70, boarded the MV Hondius with his wife after making a fateful trip to a landfill site in Argentina. Leo was the first patient to die of the virus on board the ship. His...