ReviewMilitary medicine2024
Hantavirus Infections among Military Forces.
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- Incidence rate of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome complicated with acute pancreatitis: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Hantavirus infection in emergency radiology: Imaging manifestations, pathophysiology, and infection control considerations.Emergency radiology · 2026Review
- The Changing Landscape of Hantavirus Infections: A Narrative Review of Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, and Countermeasures.Reviews in medical virology · 2026Review
- Local Knowledge of Land Use Effects on Human-Rodent Interfaces in Lassa-Endemic Nigeria.EcoHealth · 2026Article
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- Achievement and Challenges in Orthohantavirus Vaccines.Vaccines · 2025Review
- Hantavirus Research in Finland.Viruses · 2024Article
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Abstract
introductionHantaviruses cause two kinds of clinical syndromes. Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome is caused by Hantaan virus in Asia, Puumala virus (PUUV) and Dobrava virus in Europe, and Seoul virus worldwide. Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome is caused by Sin Nombre virus in North America and Andes virus and related viruses in Latin America. All hantaviruses are carried by rodents and insectivores. Humans are infected via inhaled aerosols of rodent excreta. In the history, there are several epidemics of acute infectious diseases during many wars, which have been suggested or proven to be caused by various hantaviruses. MATERIALS AND
methodsLiterature review of 41 original publications and reviews published between 1943 and 2022 was performed. Among them, 23 publications handle hantavirus infections among military forces, and the rest 17 hantavirus infections themselves.
resultsA large epidemic during World War II in 1942 among German and Finnish soldiers in Northern Finland with more than 1,000 patients was most probably caused by PUUV. During Korean War in 1951-1954,∼ 3,200 cases occurred among United Nations soldiers in an epidemic caused by Hantaan virus. During Balkan war from 1991 to 1995, numerous soldiers got ill because of hantavirus infection caused by PUUV and Dobrava virus. Several other reports of cases of various hantavirus infections especially among U.S. soldiers acting in South Korea, Germany, Bosnia, and Kosovo have been described in the literature.
conclusionsMilitary maneuvers usually include soil removal, spreading, digging with accompanied dust, and living in field and other harsh conditions, which easily expose soldiers to rodents and their excreta. Therefore, the risks of hantavirus infections in military context are obvious. All military infections have been caused by hantaviruses leading to hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome.
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