Profile
- Short name: LANV
- Family: New World
- Reservoir: Vesper mouse (Calomys laucha)
- Primary region: Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil
- Causes: Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS)
- Case-fatality rate: ~12–25% (HPS)
- Person-to-person transmission: Not documented
- Identified: 1995
Key facts
- Reservoir: vesper mouse (Calomys laucha).
- Causes HPS very similar in presentation to Sin Nombre or Andes.
Sources for the above: Johnson et al., Virology 1997 (initial Laguna Negra virus characterization, Paraguay/Bolivia)
