Viruses: News and Research on Orthohantavirus

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How Indigenous knowledge helped solve a mysterious outbreak

When a mysterious and deadly illness began to sicken members of the Navajo community in the Four Corners region of the Southwestern U.S. in 1993, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigators were stumped.

Vole fever spreading further south in Sweden

Researchers have discovered that bank voles in Skåne, southern Sweden, carry a virus that can cause hemorrhagic fever in humans. This finding was made more than 500 km south of the previously known range.

Biologists discover new rodent-based virus

Biologists at the University of Arkansas have discovered a new virus that belongs to a family of viruses that transfers from rodents to humans, some of which cause a fatal cardiopulmonary disease. The study was published ...