Update: hantavirus disease--United States, 1993.
Since the recognition of acute hantavirus-associated respiratory disease in the United States in May 1993, laboratory evidence of acute hantavirus infection has been confirmed in 30 persons in the southwestern United States; 20 (67%) of these persons have died. Of those 30 persons, 23 resided in the four-corners region (14 in New Mexico, six in Arizona, and three in Colorado). Previously reported cases outside the four-corners states occurred in a Nevada resident and a Texas resident, neither of whom had traveled to the four-corners area, and a resident of another state who had traveled to and presumably was infected in the four-corners area. This report summarizes the other four confirmed cases and describes two cases under investigation; all of these cases occurred outside the four-corners area during July 1992-August 1993.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002044:Bunyaviridae Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002140:California; D005260:Female; D006476:Orthohantavirus; D006801:Humans; D008145:Louisiana; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009505:Nevada; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology