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2 unusual facts about Hantavirus


Hantan River

The infectious agent Hantavirus was first identified in the Hantan River area by Dr. Lee Ho-wang.

Ralph Hasenhüttl

During pre-season training in the summer of 2012, Hasenhüttl contracted a Hantavirus infection, but returned to work three weeks into the 2012–13 season.


Calabazo virus

It is a novel New World microtine rodent-borne hantavirus discovered in Central America on the Azuero Peninsula of Panama in early 2000.

Catacamas virus

Catacamas virus is a single-stranded, enveloped novel RNA virus species in the hantavirus genus of the Bunyaviridae family isolated in Oryzomys couesi near the town of Catacamas in eastern Honduras.

Chinese mole shrew

In 2006, the Centers for Disease Control reported this species can carry a version of the hantavirus which is genetically distinct from rodent hantavirus and new to science.

Epidemic Intelligence Service

Persons participating in the program, popularly called "disease detectives", are called "EIS Officers" by the CDC and have been dispatched to investigate possible epidemics, due to both natural and artificial causes, including anthrax, hantavirus, and West Nile virus in the United States and Ebola in Uganda and Zaire.

Sin Nombre

Sin Nombre virus, the prototypical etiologic agent of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS)

Topografov virus

It is the first hantavirus to be isolated from Siberian lemmings (Lemmus sibiricus) found near the Topografov River in the Taymyr Peninsula, Siberia.


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