Article
Hantaviruses: a global disease problem.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2000
Schmaljohn C, Hjelle B
Abstract excerpt
Hantaviruses are carried by numerous rodent species throughout the world. In 1993, a previously unknown group of hantaviruses emerged in the United States as the cause of an acute respiratory disease now termed hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). Before than, hantaviruses were known as the etiologic agents of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, a disease that occurs almost entirely in the Eastern Hemisphere....
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