Infections by Hantavirus (Bunyaviridae) can cause severe human diseases, such as hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in Eurasia and cardiopulmonary syndrome in the Americas. These diseases are ...

Human-to-human transmission has only been documented ... circulate in Europe and Asia and have been found to cause hantavirus hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. On the other hand, New World ...

Hantaviruses are rodent-borne viruses causing clinical illness in humans of varying severity. Each hantavirus is specific to a different rodent host. Transmission of the virus to humans occurs ...

A close contact of someone with bird flu became ill on the same day, the C.D.C. reported. But the second person was not ...

"If it is human transmission of H5N1, that automatically raises the threat level," says Samuel Scarpino, director of AI + ...

Just how deadly is the H5N1 avian flu? The virus, which is currently sweeping through U.S. dairy herds, rarely jumps to human ...

A serious disease spread from wild rodents to humans has captivated the ... services essential in mitigating the risk of hantavirus transmission. Matthew Fleisher: Your Local Expert Mathew ...

Zoonosis has played an important role in the emergence of new human diseases in recent decades. Around 70% of human etiological pathogens – from various bacterial, fungal and viral families – have ...

A close contact of a Missouri resident identified as having a human case of the H5N1 avian flu also became sick around the ...

Future Virology. 2009;4(4):383-389. These important tools were recently reported for the serologic diagnosis of hantavirus. However, it is necessary to further investigate these new methods in ...

In a disclosure that can't eliminate the possibility that bird flu may have spread from one human to another for the ...