Hantavirus in Venezuela

Overview

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

Two indigenous hantaviruses are documented in Venezuelan rodents: Maporal virus (in the delicate pygmy rice rat, Oligoryzomys delicatus) and Caño Delgadito virus (in Alston's cotton rat, Sigmodon alstoni), both first characterised on Hato Maporal farm, Portuguesa State. Country-specific human-disease attribution remains limited.

Sources for the above: Fulhorst et al., Virus Res 2004 (Maporal virus initial characterisation) · Milazzo et al., Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 2010 (host-relationship refinement, O. delicatus)

Reservoir species

• Oligoryzomys delicatus
• Sigmodon alstoni

Signal trend (last 30 days)