Profile
- Short name: ANDV
- Family: New World
- Reservoir: Long-tailed pygmy rice rat (Oligoryzomys longicaudatus)
- Primary region: Argentina, Chile
- Causes: Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS)
- Case-fatality rate: ~25–40% (HPS)
- Person-to-person transmission: Documented
- Identified: 1995
Key facts
- Reservoir: long-tailed pygmy rice rat in southern South America.
- Only hantavirus with confirmed human-to-human transmission (close contact, e.g. household or healthcare).
- Causes Andes Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (sometimes "ANDS").
- Notable cluster outbreaks: Epuyén, Argentina (2018–2019).
Sources for the above: López et al., Virology 1996 (genetic identification of ANDV) · Padula et al., Virology 1998 (first molecular evidence of P2P) · Martínez et al., NEJM 2020 (Epuyén super-spreader cluster)
