Researchers have discovered that bank voles in Skåne, southern Sweden, carry a virus that can cause hemorrhagic fever in humans.
Mar 22 2024Uppsala University Researchers have discovered that bank voles in Skåne, southern Sweden, carry a virus that can cause hemorrhagic fever in humans. This finding was made more than 500 km south of the previously known range. The virus strain discovered in Skåne appears to be more closely related to strains from Finland and Karelia than to the variants found in northern Sweden and Denmark.
Elin Economou Lundeberg, infectious diseases doctor at Kristianstad Central Hospital, one of the study's first authors In 2018, a locally contracted case of vole fever was reported in Skåne, more than 500 km south of the previously known southernmost incidence of the disease in Sweden, which was north of Uppsala. Another case was discovered in 2020, also in Skåne. In both cases, the patients concerned had not been away travelling and were infected in their home area.
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