PRO/AH/EDR> Hantavirus – Turkey (02): comment

Hantavirus — Turkey
If one of the 4 novel hantaviruses recently found in Turkey, namely Tula Hantavirus (TULV) Palandoken indeed causes hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS), as mentioned in the statement of Professor Mehmet Ali Oktem of Dokuz Eylul University’s Medical Virology Department, this would be highly interesting, because the pathogenicity of TULV is still a matter of debate.
The recent confirmation by RT-PCR of a TULV-induced HFRS case in France [1], confirms the pathogenicity of this