Health
First Animal-to-Human Transmission of Deadly Hantavirus Identified in Germany – Technology Networks
Researchers have confirmed Germany’s first-ever case of animal-to-human transmission involving the “Seoul virus”, a hantavirus mainly found in Asia and transmitted…
A group of researchers from Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin have confirmed Germanys 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 influence the way in which we deal with both wild…
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