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'Mouse fever' sweeps Serbia police unit
BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro, April 14 (UPI) -- Seventeen members of Serbia's para-military police have been hospitalized with viral hemorrhagic fever, known as "mouse fever."
Doctors at Belgrade's infectious diseases clinic said the number of sick policemen is expected to rise since 33 gendarmes were directly exposed to the virus while on assignment in southern Serbia, the Beta news agency reported Friday.
Mila Vucic-Jankovic, head of a Belgrade immunology institute said tests have established the policemen were infected with viral hemorrhagic fever with kidney syndrome, which means renal function could be affected. None of the hospitalized policemen were in a life-threatening state.
Field mice are carriers of the virus and that's why the disease is called "mouse fever."
Woods and fields in southern Serbia and its Kosovo province are natural hotbeds of "mouse fever," doctors said.
'Mouse fever' sweeps Serbia police unit
BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro, April 14 (UPI) -- Seventeen members of Serbia's para-military police have been hospitalized with viral hemorrhagic fever, known as "mouse fever."
Doctors at Belgrade's infectious diseases clinic said the number of sick policemen is expected to rise since 33 gendarmes were directly exposed to the virus while on assignment in southern Serbia, the Beta news agency reported Friday.
Mila Vucic-Jankovic, head of a Belgrade immunology institute said tests have established the policemen were infected with viral hemorrhagic fever with kidney syndrome, which means renal function could be affected. None of the hospitalized policemen were in a life-threatening state.
Field mice are carriers of the virus and that's why the disease is called "mouse fever."
Woods and fields in southern Serbia and its Kosovo province are natural hotbeds of "mouse fever," doctors said.