Profile
- Short name: DOBV
- Family: Old World
- Reservoir: Yellow-necked mouse (Apodemus flavicollis)
- Primary region: Balkans, Central Europe, Greece, Russia
- Causes: Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome (HFRS)
- Case-fatality rate: ~10–12% (severe HFRS)
- Person-to-person transmission: Not documented
- Identified: 1992
Key facts
- Reservoirs include Apodemus flavicollis (yellow-necked mouse) and A. agrarius lineages.
- Severe HFRS comparable to Hantaan virus disease.
- Endemic across the Balkans, especially Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece.
Endemic in
- Germany
- Austria
- Poland
- Czechia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Croatia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Serbia
- Montenegro
- Greece
- Bulgaria
- Romania
- Hungary
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Russia
- Türkiye