Hantavirus can also be transmitted by wild or domesticated rats – News-Medical.Net

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Nov 12 2020
A group of researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have confirmed Germany’s first-ever case of animal-to-human transmission involving a specific species of virus known as the ‘Seoul virus’. Working alongside colleagues from Friedrich-Loeffer-Institut (FLI), the researchers were able to confirm the presence of the virus in a young female patient and her pet rat. Their findings, which have been published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, may…

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