We now know that HPS occurs throughout the United States (indeed, probably throughout the Americas) and is caused by a group of hantaviruses carried by members of a large subfamily of New World ...

Rodent-borne hantaviruses are associated with two main clinical disorders in humans: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome. Although hantavirus diseases can ...

Pathogenic rodent-borne hantaviruses cause generalized infections in humans that involve the peripheral vascular bed and severely affect their permeability. There are at least 13 hantaviruses ...