Rise in the number of notified human hantavirus infections since October 2011 in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

I Boone; C Wagner-Wiening; D Reil; J Jacob; U M Rosenfeld; R G Ulrich; D Lohr; G Pfaff

doi:10.2807/ese.17.21.20180-en

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Rise in the number of notified human hantavirus infections since October 2011 in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
I Boone^1,2 , C Wagner-Wiening¹ , D Reil³ , J Jacob³ , U M Rosenfeld⁴ , R G Ulrich⁴ , D Lohr¹ , G Pfaff ¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Baden-Württemberg State Health Office, Epidemiology and Health Reporting, Stuttgart, Germany ² European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden ³ Julius Kühn-Institute, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Plant Protection in Horticulture and Forestry, Münster, Germany ⁴ Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Greifswald - Insel Riems, Germany

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Citation style for this article: Boone I, Wagner-Wiening C, Reil D, Jacob J, Rosenfeld U M, Ulrich R G, Lohr D, Pfaff G. Rise in the number of notified human hantavirus infections since October 2011 in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(21):pii=20180. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.17.21.20180-en Received: 21 May 2012

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Abstract

From October 2011 to April 2012, 852 human hantavirus infections were notified in Germany, of which 580 (68%) were in Baden-Württemberg. Case numbers started to rise earlier than they did before the previous outbreaks in 2007 and 2010, and are the largest ever reported in this state during October to April of any year. The early rise could be due to a beech mast year in 2011, followed by an early and massive reproduction of the reservoir bank vole populations during winter 2011 and spring 2012. .