Hantavirus in SK SK

Circulating strains

Hantavirus strains documented in SK. HPS = Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (Americas, predominantly fatal lung involvement). HFRS = Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome (Eurasia, kidney involvement).

• PUUV Puumala virus HFRS

  Rodent reservoir

  Bank vole (Myodes glareolus)

  Case-fatality rate

  <1%

  Person-to-person spread

  Not documented

  Causes 'nephropathia epidemica', the mildest form of HFRS. Highest case volume of any European hantavirus; Finland reports more than a thousand cases in typical years.