Overview
Finland is in the Europe hantavirus context. The country has documented circulation of PUUV (Puumala virus).
Finland reports the highest per-capita hantavirus notification rate in Europe — 14.5 cases / 100 000 in 2023 per the ECDC Annual Epidemiological Report. Puumala virus (nephropathia epidemica) is essentially the only circulating strain, and case peaks track multi-year bank-vole population cycles.
Sources for the above: ECDC Hantavirus Annual Epidemiological Report 2023 · Vaheri, Henttonen & Mustonen, Viruses 2021 (Hantavirus research in Finland)
Reservoir species
- Myodes glareolus
Endemic strains
Signal trend (last 30 days)
Signal volume = mentions in monitored sources (CDC, WHO, ECDC, news in 17 languages), not confirmed clinical case counts. Buckets are UTC days.