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Hantavirus in Greece

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Europe GRC

Overview

Greece is in the Europe hantavirus context. The country has documented circulation of PUUV, DOBV (Puumala virus, Dobrava-Belgrade virus).

Dobrava-Belgrade virus is the predominant hantavirus in Greece, with HFRS cases reported since 1984 and a case-fatality rate near 9%; cases concentrate in the north and north-west. Dobrava virus was first isolated in Greece by Papa et al. in 2001 from an Apodemus flavicollis trapped in the north-eastern border region.

Sources for the above: Papa et al., J Clin Microbiol 2001 (Dobrava virus isolation, A. flavicollis, Greece) · Papa & Antoniadis, Eur J Epidemiol 2001 (hantavirus infections in Greece — update)

Reservoir species

  • Apodemus flavicollis
  • Myodes glareolus

Endemic strains

PUUV HFRS
Puumala virus
CFR: <0.5% (mild HFRS, "nephropathia epidemica")
DOBV HFRS
Dobrava-Belgrade virus
CFR: ~10–12% (severe HFRS)

Signal trend (last 30 days)

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Signal volume = mentions in monitored sources (CDC, WHO, ECDC, news in 17 languages), not confirmed clinical case counts. Buckets are UTC days.

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