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The group of disorders known as (HF/renal faliure) first made a major impact throughout the medical world in 1951 when 3,000 U.N. troops in Korea sufferd from what western-trained doctors thouhgt was a new disease. With a mortallity rate of 10%. in 1987 the responsible hanta virus was identified as a 'new' disease, but had been discovered and rediscovered in many times and places before.
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http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/76/17/8890
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Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Professions 7th Edition
There is no known treatment involving the lungs, but the kidney responds to ribavirin that shortens illness and reduces risk of death.
The only prevention is to avoid rodent feces and urine.