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:10.3201/eid2512.181649

Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome, Russia

Emerg Infect Dis. 2019 Dec;25(12):2325-2328. doi: 10.3201/eid2512.181649.

Authors

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

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Russia; epidemiology; hantavirus; hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome; viruses; zoonoses.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Geography, Medical
Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome / epidemiology*
Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome / virology
Humans
Incidence
Mortality
Orthohantavirus / classification
Public Health Surveillance
Russia / epidemiology