Doctor on Hantavirus Cruise is One of the Top Birders in the World

This past Friday, July 17, Dr. Stephen Kornfeld, a semi-retired Bend oncologist, was in Klamath Falls viewing a bird that he hadn’t seen before: a Least Bittern. An avid birder, he was on board the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius in April when the Andes hantavirus spread — a rare strain that can transmit person-to-person. […]