Rodent-borne viruses like the hantavirus are likely to spread to more countries that have never faced these diseases due to climate change, putting new communities at risk, scientists warn in a new study. A cruise ship MV Hondius , which ​set off from Argentina, carrying about 150 people has been the centre of a hantavirus outbreak , which has so far taken the lives of three passengers. With over 10 hantavirus cases confirmed since the outbreak, officials in several countries, including the UK, are scrambling to contain the spread of the virus, which can silently incubate in patients for between one and eight weeks. Even if the current outbreak is contained, a new study warns that outbreaks of such arenaviruses could become more common in the coming decades as shifting rodent populations raise the risks of human infection. Arenaviruses are a family of viruses mainly transmitted to humans from infected rodents.…