CDC answers your questions about HANTAVIRUS Text-only Version Main Index
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What We Offer in the Text-Only Area
Public Information Area
Information on the transmission, carriers, symptoms, treatment and prevention of HPS. For
general interest readers, students and others.
Three text-only documents:
Part One: "Tracking a Mystery Disease: a brief
history of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome" and "How Is the Virus That Causes HPS
Transmitted? The rodent connection"
Part Two: "Who Is at Risk of Getting HPS and
Why?", "What Are the Symptoms of HPS", and "What Is the Treatment for
HPS?"
Technical Information Area
Detailed information on HPS, from clinical manifestations to virology, written for
visitors such as health care providers and public health professionals. One
text-only document.
1999, Special Pathogens Branch
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases
National Center for Infectious Diseases
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services