Profile
- Short name: SEOV
- Family: Old World
- Reservoir: Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus)
- Primary region: Worldwide (urban), East Asia, Europe, Americas
- Causes: Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome (HFRS)
- Case-fatality rate: ~1–2% (HFRS, mild form)
- Person-to-person transmission: Not documented
- Identified: 1980
Key facts
- Reservoir: brown rat (Rattus norvegicus). Present worldwide, including ports and cities.
- Causes a milder form of HFRS (sometimes called "ratborne nephropathia").
- Outbreaks have been documented among pet-rat owners and breeders (US, UK).
- Globally distributed because the host travels with shipping and trade.
Sources for the above: Lee, Baek & Johnson, J Infect Dis 1982 (urban-rat isolation, Seoul prototype) · Shepherd et al., Emerg Infect Dis 2021 (Seoul virus, pet rats, Scotland) · CDC MMWR 2018 (Seoul virus outbreak among rats and rat owners, US/Canada)
Endemic in
- United States
- Belgium
- Netherlands
- Portugal
- United Kingdom
- Ireland
- South Korea
- China
- Japan
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Vietnam
- Indonesia
- Philippines
- Malaysia
- Singapore
- India
- Bangladesh
- Pakistan
- Cambodia
- Laos
- Senegal
- Egypt
