Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is an often fatal infectious disease caused by orthohantaviruses in the order Bunyavirales of -ssRNA viruses. Rodents have long been considered to be the primary reservoir hosts of hantaviruses. However, recent discoveries have revealed that hantaviruses infect a more diverse range of mammalian hosts, particularly Chiroptera and Soricomorpha.
Category
Viral infectious disease
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Certain zoonotic viral diseases
1D62 Hantavirus disease
H00390 Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Viral infections
Infections caused by -ssRNA viruses
H00390 Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
Pathogen
Sin Nombre virus [GN:T40020] Andes virus [GN:T40021] Bayou virus [GN:T40358]
Comment
At present there are no efficacious vaccines, immunotherapeutics, or antivirals licensed for HPS.
