This explains why CDC's legendary virus hunter Karl Johnson, MD, named the virus after Korea's Hantaan River. Two years earlier, Johnson also named Ebola for a waterway near a virus-ravaged village in ...
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 ...
It also helped in building preparedness against Ebola, Marburg, Hantaan, rift valley fever and yellow fever. Before containment laboratories were set up, there were several challenges in ...