Exposure Characteristics of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome Patients, United States, 1993-2015

Emerg Infect Dis. 2017 May;23(5):733-739. doi: 10.3201/eid2305.161770.

Abstract

Those at highest risk are persons in occupations with potential for rodent exposure and American Indian women 40--64 years of age.

Keywords: United States; hantavirus; hantavirus pulmonary syndrome; occupation; viruses; zoonoses.

Publication types

  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Child
  • Disease Reservoirs
  • Environmental Exposure*
  • Female
  • Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome / epidemiology*
  • Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome / history
  • Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome / transmission*
  • History, 20th Century
  • History, 21st Century
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mortality
  • Public Health Surveillance
  • Sin Nombre virus*
  • United States / epidemiology
  • United States / ethnology
  • Young Adult