New World Hantaviruses
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Viruses".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2027 | Viewed by 8
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Interests: respiratory viruses; diagnosis; treatment; aerosol transmission; infection control; pathogenesis; epidemiology; bloodborne viruses; congenital viral infections; viral infections of the immuno-compromised
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Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, people are very interconnected, especially with social media, cheap foreign travel and international business and leisure activities.
The recent Andes hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship demonstrates one of the downsides to such interconnectedness. Viruses respect no borders and have evolved to optimise self-propagation, so any opportunity to spread will be readily taken.
In this particular case, the virus itself is known, as is its mode of transmission, but the circumstance was unusual—a cruise ship with a multinational and effectively ‘captive’ (whilst at sea) passenger list. Its recognised high mortality (30–50%), together with the absence of any licensed antiviral drug or vaccine, could presumably only add to the ‘movie-like’ drama unfolding on board.
In this Special Issue, we would like to focus on various aspects of New World hantavirus, including its various zoonotic reservoirs and how we might control them (especially with ongoing global climate change), human outbreaks and epidemiology, diagnostics and treatment, infection control—and the development of possible antiviral drugs and vaccines.
Dr. Julian Tang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- hantavirus
- virus–host interaction
- immune responses
- hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome
- haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
- epidemiology
- diagnostics
- treatment
- infection control
- antiviral drugs
- vaccines
- zoonosis
- reservoir hosts
- viral ecology
- climate change
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