Gary Ross <bkoch at together.net> wrote:
>> About a year or so ago, there was a break of a disease on the Navaho
> reservation that was quite concerning. The last I heard, it was
> thought to be a hantavirus which I believe is serologically closest to
> a bunyavirus (such as oropouche).
>> Does anyone have any further information on this? Was a virus
> definitively isolated? What were the symptoms? Was it hemmorhagic?
>> Anyone know much about hantaviruses (or bunyaviruses)?
>> -- Gary
I'm actually following up on my own posting -- I found a brief piece
on the CDC WWW server:
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS), a newly recognized illness
characterized by an influenza-like prodrome followed by the acute
onset of respiratory failure, was first identified in the southwestern
US in June 1993 during the investigation of a cluster of unexplained
deaths. A new hantavirus (Sin Nombre virus) and a rodent reservoir
for the virus (the deer mouse [Peromyscus maniculatus]) were
identified. As of August 31, 1994, national surveillance for HPS...
has identified 91 confirmed cases of HPS (with 48 deaths) in 20 states
(case fatality rate: 53%).
I thought others might be interested in this information.
Anybody know anything about hantaviruses in general?
-- Gary
