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Dangerous hantavirus on the up: Stuttgart is the "epicentre"
19 May 2019 , by Abi Carter
The number of cases of hantavirus - a potentially deadly disease carried by mice and other rodents - has dramatically increased in Germany this year. A particularly high number of infections have been recorded in the German city of Stuttgart, which is now considered an ?epicentre? for the virus.
Hantavirus on the up in Germany and Stuttgart
More and more people are catching the harmful hantavirus. There have already been more than 200 registered cases in Baden-W?rttemberg in 2019, compared with only a dozen or so in the same period last year. Those infected experience flu-like symptoms, which in more severe cases can lead to kidney failure and lung disease.
The number of cases in Stuttgart has risen particularly sharply. The regional council announced on May 15 that so far this year 211 cases have already been reported. Nowhere else in the world has there been so many cases, leading experts to now consider the city an ?epicentre? for the disease.
Bumper year for rodents causes increase in infections...
Dangerous hantavirus on the up: Stuttgart is the "epicentre"
19 May 2019 , by Abi Carter
The number of cases of hantavirus - a potentially deadly disease carried by mice and other rodents - has dramatically increased in Germany this year. A particularly high number of infections have been recorded in the German city of Stuttgart, which is now considered an ?epicentre? for the virus.
Hantavirus on the up in Germany and Stuttgart
More and more people are catching the harmful hantavirus. There have already been more than 200 registered cases in Baden-W?rttemberg in 2019, compared with only a dozen or so in the same period last year. Those infected experience flu-like symptoms, which in more severe cases can lead to kidney failure and lung disease.
The number of cases in Stuttgart has risen particularly sharply. The regional council announced on May 15 that so far this year 211 cases have already been reported. Nowhere else in the world has there been so many cases, leading experts to now consider the city an ?epicentre? for the disease.
Bumper year for rodents causes increase in infections...