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ORPHA:340Disease
Also called Hantavirosis · Hantavirus fever
What it is
A rare rodent-borne, potentially severe, hemorrhagic disease caused by Old World Hantaviruses characterized by high fever, malaise, headache, myalgia, arthralgia, backache, abdominal pain, oliguria/renal failure and systemic hemorrhagic manifestations.
Key facts
- Prevalence
- 1-5 / 10 000 (Europe)
- Age of onset
- All ages
- Inheritance
- Not applicable
- Classified as
- Disease
Prevalence figures describe populations, not individuals, and are often estimates from a single study. Where the figure is an incidence or a birth prevalence, it says so.
Signs and symptoms
Very common80–99%
8Common30–79%
23- Abdominal pain
- Acute tubulointerstitial nephritis
- Back pain
- Blurred vision
- Chills
- Decreased body weight
- Excessive daytime somnolence
- Fatigue
- Glomerulonephritis
- Headache
- Hypotension
- Increased circulating interleukin 6 concentration
- Increased total leukocyte count
- Muscle weakness
- Myalgia
- Nausea
- Palpitations
- Petechiae
- Proteinuria
- Tachycardia
- Thrombocytopenia
- Tubulointerstitial nephritis
- Vomiting
Sometimes5–29%
21and 13 more in this range
These ranges are how often a sign appears across everyone diagnosed, not a prediction for one person — most people have some of these and not others. Orphanet also records findings that are specifically absent in this disease; those are in the data but not listed here.
ICD-10 codes
Related health topics
Reached through the ICD-10 categories this disease is filed under, so these describe the broader group rather than this disease specifically.
Cross-references
Orphadata Science: Free access data from Orphanet. © INSERM 1999. Data version 2026-06-23. Available under CC BY 4.0. This is a reference, not medical advice.
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