Hantavirus in Peru

Overview

Peru is in the Americas hantavirus context. There is no major endemic hantavirus strain in this curated dataset; the country may still record imported cases.

Río Mamoré virus has been confirmed endemic in the Peruvian Amazon (Loreto Department, in Oligoryzomys microtis), and Andes-virus variants have been detected in rodents in the southern Amazon Basin. A 2012 Iquitos serosurvey reported low-level human exposure (~0.3% IgM, ~1.7% IgG) to Andes/Sin Nombre antigens.

Sources for the above: Castillo Oré et al., Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 2012 (human serosurvey) · Razuri et al., Emerg Infect Dis 2014 (Andes variant in southern Peruvian Amazon rodents) · Piche-Ovares et al., Emerg Infect Dis 2024 (Río Mamoré endemicity, Peruvian Amazon)

Reservoir species

• Oligoryzomys microtis
• Oligoryzomys spp.

Signal trend (last 30 days)