Hantavirus — Worldwide/Unknown
The premise that Seoul virus (SEOV), recently demonstrated By C Firth et al with quantitative PCR in 8/133 (6 per cent) wild Norway rats [_Rattus norvegicus_, brown, common, or wharf rat], captured in New York City (NYC), has “probably been introduced recently in NYC”, and consequently may “represent a potential risk to human health in the city” should be received with great circumspection, and viewed at least in due historical perspective of what we learned already over more that 30 years
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