Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2019)

Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome, Russia

  • Evgeniy A. Tkachenko,
  • Aydar A. Ishmukhametov,
  • Tamara K. Dzagurova,
  • Alla D. Bernshtein,
  • Viacheslav G. Morozov,
  • Alexandra A. Siniugina,
  • Svetlana S. Kurashova,
  • Alexandra S. Balkina,
  • Petr E. Tkachenko,
  • Detlev H. Kruger,
  • Boris Klempa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2512.181649
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 12
pp. 2325 – 2328

Abstract

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In Russia, 131,590 cases of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome caused by 6 different hantaviruses were reported during 2000–2017. Most cases, 98.4%, were reported in western Russia. The average case-fatality rate was 0.4%, and strong regional differences were seen, depending on the predominant virus type.

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