Orthohantaviruses cause hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome; most cases occur in the southwest region of the United States. We discuss a clinical case of orthohantavirus infection in a 65-year-old woman in Michigan and the phylogeographic link of partial viral fragments from the patient and rodents captured near the presumed site of infection.
Keywords: Michigan; New York virus; Orthohantavirus; Sin Nombre virus; United States; bunyavirdiae; genetics; infection; reservoir; transmission; viruses; zoonoses.