Infections by Hantavirus (Bunyaviridae) can cause severe human diseases, such as hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in Eurasia and cardiopulmonary syndrome in the Americas. These diseases are ...

Two people in California have been infected with hantavirus this year. There’s no specific treatment or vaccine to protect ...

Reliable diagnostic tools for the diagnosis of hantavirus infections only became available in the 1990s, and hantavirus infections were probably heavily under-diagnosed well into the last decade ...

When a mysterious and deadly illness began to sicken members of the Navajo community in the Four Corners region of the ...

Officials have issued a health warning over an incurable rat disease after four people died from the infection this year. Hantavirus — which is fatal in 36 percent of cases — typically causes ...

Authorities said boy died “traumatically” and as a “direct result of his torture and abuse by his adoptive parents.” ...

There is no treatment, cure or vaccine for hantavirus infection, and the case-fatality rate can reach 35-50 percent. The WHO advised health authorities in the region to be vigilant and to step up ...

Bausch previously led CDC's and the World Health Organization's (WHO) Lassa Fever program in Africa, ran Ebola treatment centers in Uganda and Sierra Leone, investigated hantavirus infections in ...

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B. Biology, 7th ed. San Francisco, CA: Pearson, 2005. Hjelle B. & Glass, G .E. Outbreak of hantavirus infection in the Four Corners Region of the United States in the wake of the 1997–1998 El ...

Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera and anthrax ...