Emerging Diseases

Hantavirus Infection Not Limited to Rural Areas

Published in Blood Weekly, March 20th, 1995

Prevention and control of hantavirus infection in laboratory animals, urban areas, and, to the extent possible, in rural areas, are extremely important, a researcher from Korea indicated.

At the 4th Western Pacific Congress on Chemotherapy and Infectious Diseases, conducted December 4-7, 1994, in Manila, Philippines, H.W. Lee, Asian Institute for Life Sciences, Seoul, Korea, described incidents of hantavirus transmission ("Global Update on Hantavirus Infection," Supplement to JAMA Southeast Asia, December 1994;10(3):190-194).

Lee stated that exports, imports and exchanges of special animal models of hantavirus-infected rats among research institutes...

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