Hantaviruses are enzootic viruses that maintain persistent infections in their rodent hosts
without apparent disease symptoms. The spillover of these viruses to humans can lead to …

Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome (HFRS) is the most frequently diagnosed zoonosis
in Asia. This zoonotic infection is the result of exposure to the virus-contaminated aerosols …

The capability of rodent-borne viruses to survive outside the host is critical for the
transmission dynamics within rodent populations and to humans. The transmission of …

The fluctuations in abundance of a wildlife reservoir are an attractive explanation for
temporal variation in primary human cases of a zoonosis. This is because high abundance …

Hantaviruses are predominantly rodent‐borne pathogens, although recently novel shrew‐
associated hantaviruses were found. Within natural reservoir hosts, hantairuses do not …

Hantaviruses can cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in the Americas and
hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in Eurasia. In recent decades, repeated …

Norway and black rats (Rattus norvegicus and Rattus rattus) are among the most ubiquitous
urban wildlife species and are the source of a number of zoonotic diseases responsible for …

Five hantaviruses are known to circulate among rodents in Europe, and at least two among
insectivores. Four (Dobrava, Saaremaa, Seoul, and Puumala [PUUV] viruses) are clearly …

Background Nephropathia epidemica (NE), an emerging rodent-borne viral disease, has
become the most important cause of infectious acute renal failure in Belgium, with sharp …

Puumala hantavirus is present in bank voles (Myodes glareolus) and is believed to be
spread mainly by contaminated excretions. In this study, we subcutaneously inoculated 10 …