Profile
- Short name: CHOV
- Family: New World
- Reservoir: Costa Rican pygmy rice rat (Oligoryzomys fulvescens)
- Primary region: Panama
- Causes: Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS)
- Case-fatality rate: ~10–15% (HPS)
- Person-to-person transmission: Not documented
- Identified: 2000
Key facts
- Reservoir: Oligoryzomys fulvescens.
- Notable for a high seroprevalence relative to symptomatic cases.
- Outbreaks reported especially in Los Santos and Herrera provinces, Panama.
Sources for the above: Vincent et al., Virology 2000 (initial Choclo virus identification) · Nelson et al., J Med Virol 2010 (CHOV confirmed as cause of HCPS, Panama)
