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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
Sounds like the virus was bought aboard in the supplies before sailing.
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The theory goes that at room temperature, the virus "dies" after around 3 days. Frozen supplies may have been a source. I now gather larger fishing boats make their own ice on board.
The length of time before anybody showed any symptoms and that it all happened around the same time, suggests the initial exposure came late on in the voyage.
Don't know what the weather is like down there, but it is winter in the southern hemisphere and they are at the very southern tip of South America.