Hantaviruses are responsible for thousands of infections globally. This study assesses the effectiveness of commonly used disinfectants in inactivating #AndesVirus and evaluates the virus's stabilty to support evidence-based hygiene strategies
https://ow.ly/pU8e50XlC3U
https://ow.ly/pU8e50XlC3U
November 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Hantaviruses are responsible for thousands of infections globally. This study assesses the effectiveness of commonly used disinfectants in inactivating #AndesVirus and evaluates the virus's stabilty to support evidence-based hygiene strategies
https://ow.ly/pU8e50XlC3U
https://ow.ly/pU8e50XlC3U
Some unexpected viruses appeared at very low levels, like Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus, Banna virus, and hantaviruses.
These may reflect trace environmental DNA or distant viral relatives, not active infections.
These may reflect trace environmental DNA or distant viral relatives, not active infections.
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Some unexpected viruses appeared at very low levels, like Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus, Banna virus, and hantaviruses.
These may reflect trace environmental DNA or distant viral relatives, not active infections.
These may reflect trace environmental DNA or distant viral relatives, not active infections.
I'm gonna add hantaviruses to my list of shit I'm scared of.
October 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I'm gonna add hantaviruses to my list of shit I'm scared of.
Mice carry hantaviruses causing diseases like hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) & hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS).
Dysentery flux is a common syndrome of 5 virus families including species E. coli, Shigella dysenteriae, & Salmonella enterica. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Dysentery flux is a common syndrome of 5 virus families including species E. coli, Shigella dysenteriae, & Salmonella enterica. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Same species, different diseases: how and why typhoidal and non-typhoidal Salmonella enterica serovars differ
Human infections by the bacterial pathogen Salmonella enterica represent major disease burdens worldwide. This highly ubiquitous species consists of more than 2600 different serovars that can be divided into typhoidal and non-typhoidal Salmonella ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
October 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Mice carry hantaviruses causing diseases like hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) & hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS).
Dysentery flux is a common syndrome of 5 virus families including species E. coli, Shigella dysenteriae, & Salmonella enterica. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Dysentery flux is a common syndrome of 5 virus families including species E. coli, Shigella dysenteriae, & Salmonella enterica. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The main papers arguing for New World viral hemhorragic fevers (which would include hantaviruses and arenaviruses as the primary options) are from 2000, building on a proposal from 1970.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
doi.org/10.4269%2Faj...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
doi.org/10.4269%2Faj...
Was the huey cocoliztli a haemorrhagic fever?
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
October 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The main papers arguing for New World viral hemhorragic fevers (which would include hantaviruses and arenaviruses as the primary options) are from 2000, building on a proposal from 1970.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
doi.org/10.4269%2Faj...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
doi.org/10.4269%2Faj...
The absence of rabies is a relief for us regarding our kitties, since they were the ones directly contacting the mouse
but the inability to tell if hantaviruses might be a factor is a bit worrying for my fiancee and I, so we're going to look at respirators and gloves for cleaning up after it
but the inability to tell if hantaviruses might be a factor is a bit worrying for my fiancee and I, so we're going to look at respirators and gloves for cleaning up after it
October 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The absence of rabies is a relief for us regarding our kitties, since they were the ones directly contacting the mouse
but the inability to tell if hantaviruses might be a factor is a bit worrying for my fiancee and I, so we're going to look at respirators and gloves for cleaning up after it
but the inability to tell if hantaviruses might be a factor is a bit worrying for my fiancee and I, so we're going to look at respirators and gloves for cleaning up after it
2/N Many of these individuals are part of @mepa-social-media.bsky.social. The paper provides data on existing genetic resources from mammals available to researchers to study emerging infectious diseases, such as hantaviruses, arenaviruses, and other zoonotic pathogens.
#collectionsareessential
#collectionsareessential
1/N Check out our recent publication on South American mammal voucher and tissue collections!!! This paper was led by Marcelo Weksler, Guellermo D'Elia, and Pablo Teta, but it included contributions from over 100 scientists.
#mammalogy #collectionsareessential #onehealth
#mammalogy #collectionsareessential #onehealth
A comprehensive survey of mammal collections and genetic resources in South America: challenges and directions
Abstract. Natural history collections serve as crucial infrastructure for both basic and applied scientific research, providing temporal and spatial specim
academic.oup.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
2/N Many of these individuals are part of @mepa-social-media.bsky.social. The paper provides data on existing genetic resources from mammals available to researchers to study emerging infectious diseases, such as hantaviruses, arenaviruses, and other zoonotic pathogens.
#collectionsareessential
#collectionsareessential
Researchers at UCLA built mini models of human lungs, hearts and brains to study hantaviruses and identify potential therapies. With no current treatments, these deadly rodent-borne viruses pose a serious threat to public health. #ResearchPowersProgress
stemcell.ucla.edu/news/ucla-sc...
stemcell.ucla.edu/news/ucla-sc...
UCLA scientists use mini organ models to uncover secrets of deadly hantaviruses and point to new treatments
UCLA researchers have created miniature stem cell-based organoid models of human lungs, hearts and brains to study how hantaviruses — rare but often deadly viruses spread by rodents — infect the body....
stemcell.ucla.edu
August 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Researchers at UCLA built mini models of human lungs, hearts and brains to study hantaviruses and identify potential therapies. With no current treatments, these deadly rodent-borne viruses pose a serious threat to public health. #ResearchPowersProgress
stemcell.ucla.edu/news/ucla-sc...
stemcell.ucla.edu/news/ucla-sc...
Miniature human organoid models have clarified how hantaviruses infect lung, heart, and brain tissues, and identified compounds that block Andes virus infection in laboratory tests. doi.org/g9zg4n
Mini-organ models reveal hantavirus secrets, point to treatments
UCLA researchers have created miniature stem cell-based organoid models of human lungs, hearts and brains to study how hantaviruses—rare but often deadly viruses spread by rodents—infect the body.
medicalxpress.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Miniature human organoid models have clarified how hantaviruses infect lung, heart, and brain tissues, and identified compounds that block Andes virus infection in laboratory tests. doi.org/g9zg4n
Differential tropisms of old and new world hantaviruses influence virulence and developing host-directed antiviral candidates
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Differential tropisms of old and new world hantaviruses influence virulence and developing host-directed antiviral candidates
Author summary Hantaviruses are fatal human pathogens that cause hemorrhagic fevers and are classified into either Old World or New World groups. Though most hantaviruses utilize zoonotic transmission...
journals.plos.org
August 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Differential tropisms of old and new world hantaviruses influence virulence and developing host-directed antiviral candidates
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
August 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
hmm I wonder if this might underly some of the sex differences in acute viral haemorrhagic fevers (eg the damage in european hantaviruses manifests as acute renal damage - particularly in young men)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Oestrogen defends against kidney damage caused by iron-dependent cell death
Differences in protection against ferroptosis explain why men and postmenopausal women are more susceptible than premenopausal women to acute kidney injury.
www.nature.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
hmm I wonder if this might underly some of the sex differences in acute viral haemorrhagic fevers (eg the damage in european hantaviruses manifests as acute renal damage - particularly in young men)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Hantaviruses is technically not violence, and seems appropriate for a couple of rats.
August 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Hantaviruses is technically not violence, and seems appropriate for a couple of rats.
One thing that makes this project special to me - Fausto and I adapted these algorithms from the @viralemergence.org codebase, where we've been using them to predict wildlife reservoirs of viruses like coronaviruses, hantaviruses, and paramyxoviruses. 🦇🦠🔓 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Optimising predictive models to prioritise viral discovery in zoonotic reservoirs
Despite the global investment in One Health disease surveillance, it remains difficult
and costly to identify and monitor the wildlife reservoirs of novel zoonotic viruses.
Statistical models can guid...
www.thelancet.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
One thing that makes this project special to me - Fausto and I adapted these algorithms from the @viralemergence.org codebase, where we've been using them to predict wildlife reservoirs of viruses like coronaviruses, hantaviruses, and paramyxoviruses. 🦇🦠🔓 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Our latest preprint:
🦠🐭 Small mammals in French forests host a wide array of potentially #zoonotic #pathogens, including #hantaviruses, #Leptospira, #Francisella...
But how does forest #anthropization shape their richness, prevalence, and community structure?
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🦠🐭 Small mammals in French forests host a wide array of potentially #zoonotic #pathogens, including #hantaviruses, #Leptospira, #Francisella...
But how does forest #anthropization shape their richness, prevalence, and community structure?
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Surveillance of zoonotic pathogens in small mammals across a gradient of forest anthropization in Eastern France
The emergence of infectious diseases associated with land-use changes is well-documented. However, zoonotic risks originating from European forests, whether from rural development or urban greening, r...
www.biorxiv.org
July 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Our latest preprint:
🦠🐭 Small mammals in French forests host a wide array of potentially #zoonotic #pathogens, including #hantaviruses, #Leptospira, #Francisella...
But how does forest #anthropization shape their richness, prevalence, and community structure?
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🦠🐭 Small mammals in French forests host a wide array of potentially #zoonotic #pathogens, including #hantaviruses, #Leptospira, #Francisella...
But how does forest #anthropization shape their richness, prevalence, and community structure?
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Also hantaviruses raise their ugly heads too.
Don’t handle wild rodents.
Don’t handle wild rodents.
July 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Also hantaviruses raise their ugly heads too.
Don’t handle wild rodents.
Don’t handle wild rodents.
No one really knows what caused sweating sickness, or what happened to it. One guess is that it was caused by hantaviruses www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/6/...
www.mdpi.com
July 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
No one really knows what caused sweating sickness, or what happened to it. One guess is that it was caused by hantaviruses www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/6/...
Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome and Diversity and Distribution of Hantaviruses - China, 2014-2023 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40620662/
July 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome and Diversity and Distribution of Hantaviruses - China, 2014-2023 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40620662/
Who cares about health and safety? Who cares about hantaviruses and other types of pathogens? Who cares if mice and rats run around? /SARCASM
metro.co.uk/2025/07/07/p...
metro.co.uk/2025/07/07/p...
Posh London restaurant fined £31,000 after dead mouse found in kitchen
New pictures show the extent of the unsanitary conditions at celeb hotspot.
metro.co.uk
July 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Who cares about health and safety? Who cares about hantaviruses and other types of pathogens? Who cares if mice and rats run around? /SARCASM
metro.co.uk/2025/07/07/p...
metro.co.uk/2025/07/07/p...
Vital Surveillances: Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome and Diversity and Distribution of Hantaviruses — China, 2014–2023
weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/d...
weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/d...
June 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Vital Surveillances: Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome and Diversity and Distribution of Hantaviruses — China, 2014–2023
weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/d...
weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/d...
On my way back home, I saw a dead rodents...
I hope no hantaviruses please
I hope no hantaviruses please
June 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
On my way back home, I saw a dead rodents...
I hope no hantaviruses please
I hope no hantaviruses please
2 new cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in Nevada. There’s always a risk of hantaviruses if you’re in the right place. For everything you need to know about US hantaviruses check out my latest episode!
www.infectiousdose.com/post/episode...
www.infectiousdose.com/post/episode...
Episode 14: No Name, No Mercy: The Hantavirus That Killed Betsy Arakawa
Heather delves into the story of Sin Nombre virus and the disease it causes, Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome. From its rodent origins and rapid progression to the public health response, Learn how it re...
www.infectiousdose.com
June 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
2 new cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in Nevada. There’s always a risk of hantaviruses if you’re in the right place. For everything you need to know about US hantaviruses check out my latest episode!
www.infectiousdose.com/post/episode...
www.infectiousdose.com/post/episode...
to quote CDC "Eliminate or minimize contact with rodents in your home, workplace, or campsite to reduce your risk of exposure to hantaviruses. ..."
Deer mouse is not the exclusive vector, only the most common.
www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/a...
Deer mouse is not the exclusive vector, only the most common.
www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/a...
About Hantavirus
An overview of hantavirus, how it's spread and how it can be treated.
www.cdc.gov
June 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
to quote CDC "Eliminate or minimize contact with rodents in your home, workplace, or campsite to reduce your risk of exposure to hantaviruses. ..."
Deer mouse is not the exclusive vector, only the most common.
www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/a...
Deer mouse is not the exclusive vector, only the most common.
www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/a...
🐭 Hantaviruses are carried by rodents and are widely distributed across Argentina (north, center, and south).
⚠️ In our setting, early recognition and intensive supportive care are crucial, as no specific antiviral treatment is available.
🧪 I was honored to contribute to this collaborative work
3/3
⚠️ In our setting, early recognition and intensive supportive care are crucial, as no specific antiviral treatment is available.
🧪 I was honored to contribute to this collaborative work
3/3
May 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
🐭 Hantaviruses are carried by rodents and are widely distributed across Argentina (north, center, and south).
⚠️ In our setting, early recognition and intensive supportive care are crucial, as no specific antiviral treatment is available.
🧪 I was honored to contribute to this collaborative work
3/3
⚠️ In our setting, early recognition and intensive supportive care are crucial, as no specific antiviral treatment is available.
🧪 I was honored to contribute to this collaborative work
3/3
Hantaviruses are a group of viruses that spread to humans through exposure to rodents.
People typically develop hantavirus infection from exposure to the infected urine, saliva, or droppings of rodents, usually rats and mice.
People typically develop hantavirus infection from exposure to the infected urine, saliva, or droppings of rodents, usually rats and mice.
May 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Hantaviruses are a group of viruses that spread to humans through exposure to rodents.
People typically develop hantavirus infection from exposure to the infected urine, saliva, or droppings of rodents, usually rats and mice.
People typically develop hantavirus infection from exposure to the infected urine, saliva, or droppings of rodents, usually rats and mice.