First evidence of Seoul orthohantavirus (SEOV) infection in a female patient in Germany
In a scientific publication in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers describe for the first time the infection of a woman with Seoul virus in Germany. The patient had contracted the zoonotic virus from her pet rat, which caused kidney failure in the patient. The discovery is due to a joint effort of the National Hantavirus Consiliary Laboratories of human medicine (located at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) and veterinary medicine (located at Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute (FLI)) together with clinicians and laboratory physicians as well as health authorities. Fig. 1: Pet
