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Hantavirus: An American Pathogen
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, October 20th, 1997
A newly recognized group of Hantaviruses in 1993 was found to be the cause of a serious, previously undescribed disease known as Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS).
Hantaviruses, members of the Bunyaviridae, are carried by rodent species found only in the New World. And because hantavirus phylogeny is ordered by rodent genotype, and not by the geographic area where the rodent is found, it appears that the pathogens have been in the Americas far longer than humans.
"Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in the...
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