Monkey Model of Hantavirus Disease Developed

An animal model of human hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in rhesus macaques has been developed by National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers. The study, conducted by researchers at NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is published in the emProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences/em. People become infected with hantaviruses by inhaling virus from the urine, droppings or saliva of infected rodents. This infection ...