Profile
- Short name: PUUV
- Family: Old World
- Reservoir: Bank vole (Myodes glareolus)
- Primary region: Finland, Sweden, Germany, France, Western Russia
- Causes: Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome (HFRS)
- Case-fatality rate: <0.5% (mild HFRS, "nephropathia epidemica")
- Person-to-person transmission: Not documented
- Identified: 1980
Key facts
- Reservoir: bank vole (Myodes glareolus).
- Most common European hantavirus by case count.
- Cyclical case peaks tied to forest mast years that boost vole populations.
- Mortality is low; renal involvement usually resolves with supportive care.
Endemic in
- Finland
- Sweden
- Norway
- Germany
- France
- Belgium
- Netherlands
- Austria
- Poland
- Czechia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Croatia
- Romania
- Hungary
- Italy
- Spain
- Switzerland
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Russia
- Türkiye