Prospect Hill virus

by - February 14, 2019




Prospect Hill virus is a single-stranded, negative-sense Hantaan-like zoonotic RNA virus isolated from meadow voles and microtine and other cricetid rodents in the United States. It has a widespread distribution in Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Minnesota and California. The overall risk of infection in humans is low. It was first isolated from a meadow vole found in Prospect Hill, Maryland for which it is named.

Transmission

Transmission to humans is believed to occur through aersolized inhalation of mouse excreta and possibly through fomite contamination.


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