puumala virus

General info

Puumala virus is a Hantavirus that is caused from wild rats, mice, and pets (hamsters, guinea pigs) around Europe and asia. and causes clinical illness in humans. during the past few decades the number of recorded cases of Puumala have been increassing which have been cousing trouble for healthcare systems. Hantavirus infecton cause 2 well-defined clinical syndromes: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, that is mostly found, and cardiopulmonary syndrome. Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome is charcterized by renal failure, thrombocytopenia, and a mortality rates of 0.1-0.4%. hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome is characterized by severe involvement of the respiratory and circulatory systems and case-fatality rates >30%.

Medical treatment​

if you think you have Puumala then you have to be treated with an urgent intansive care treatment.

biomarkers or clinical parameters for risk stratification of Puumala infection are lacking, so if you think your at risk of Puumala then go see a professinal in order to get correct medicane.