The lives lost and economic costs of viral zoonotic pandemics have steadily increased over
the past century. Prominent policymakers have promoted plans that argue the best ways to …

Hantavirus infections are part of the broad group of viral haemorrhagic fevers. They are also
recognised as a distinct model of an emergent zoonotic infection with a global distribution …

SUMMARY Hantaviruses (genus Hantavirus, family Bunyaviridae) are enveloped tri‐
segmented negative‐stranded RNA viruses each carried by a specific rodent or insectivore …

The frequent interactions of rodents with humans make them a common source of zoonotic
infections. To obtain an initial unbiased measure of the viral diversity in the enteric tract of …

The rodent-borne hantavirus Puumala virus (PUUV) and related agents cause hemorrhagic
fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in humans. Other hantaviruses, including Andes virus …

Puumala virus (PUUV) causes an acute hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS), a
zoonosis also called nephropathia epidemica (NE). The reservoir host of PUUV is the bank …

Hantavirus-induced diseases are emerging zoonoses with endemic appearances and
frequent outbreaks in different parts of the world. In humans, hantaviral pathology is …

Highlights•Persistent Puumala virus shedding occurs in wild voles.•Host population density
thresholds estimated for hantavirus invasion.•Little is known about hantavirus transmission …

Since the first clinical description in 1994 of the so-called “Hantavirus Pulmonary
Syndrome”(HPS) as a “newly recognized disease”, hantavirus infections have always been …

The knowledge of viral shedding patterns and viraemia in the reservoir host species is a key
factor in assessing the human risk of zoonotic viruses. The shedding of hantaviruses (family …