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  • acute renal failure
  • headache
  • nausea
  • vomiting
  • smnolence
  • dry cough
  • rapid shallow breathing

Hantaan Virus

(Korean Hemorrhagic Fever)

Symptoms

History

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.

Works Cited

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001382.htm

http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/76/17/8890

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Hantaan+virus

http://ndt.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/6/1289.full

http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en

Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Professions 7th Edition

Treatment

There is no known treatment involving the lungs, but the kidney responds to ribavirin that shortens illness and reduces risk of death.

Causes

Prevention

The only prevention is to avoid rodent feces and urine.

Hantaanvirus is spread by rodents through contact with their feces or urine.The rodents don't get the illness but instead they transmitt it to humans .This virus can not be spread from human to human. Half the people with this virus die.

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