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First transmission of the Seoul virus from animals to humans in Germany
Not only the coronavirus can be transmitted from animals to humans.
#GERMANY #RIEMS #SEOULVIRUS
#SEOV
First transmission of the Seoul virus from animals to humans in Germany
Not only the coronavirus can be transmitted from animals to humans.
In Germany, the transmission of the highly infectious Seoul virus, which is widespread in Asia, has been detected for the first time from an animal to a person. Seoul viruses belong to the hantavirus family.
Researchers from the Berlin CharitΓ© and the Friedrich Loeffler Institute on the island of Riems were able to detect the virus in a domestic rat and its owner from Lower Saxony. The Seoul orthohantavirus often leads to serious illnesses.
Transmission of this virus from rats to humans has already been documented in several cases outside of Asia. As the CharitΓ© reported, the young patient in Lower Saxony had to receive intensive care for several days with symptoms of acute kidney failure.
According to the CharitΓ©, the virus probably came to Europe through infected wild rats on ships, but has never been observed in Germany. The patient's infected breeding rat was probably imported to Germany from another country.
She bought the animal two to three weeks before she became ill.
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