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Research and Resources
CDC RESOURCES
Research Bibliography
Special Pathogens Branch maintains a bibliography of journal articles
that it has published or referenced concerning HPS.
Teaching Materials
The Special Pathogens Branch provides educational slide sets and materials
for public use. Topics include epidemiology and general hantavirus information.
Educational
Materials Available by Mail
Special Pathogens Branch offers a number of brochures, videos, manuals,
and other publications on hantavirus for both general and technically
oriented audiences. Materials can be ordered online, are free of charge,
and are sent by the United States Postal Service within four to six weeks
of the date of order.
Emerging Infectious
Diseases
The Emerging Infectious Diseases journal is a peer review journal
providing public health information and prevention measures for infectious
disease, including HPS.
Methods
for Trapping and Sampling Small Mammals for Virologic Testing
This manual is intended as a guide for those persons performing
ecologic and epidemiologic studies involving populations of rodents that
are potentially infected with hantavirus.
Morbidity and Mortality
Weekly Report
"Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome-United States: Updated Recommendations
for Risk Reduction" Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,
July 26, 2002/Vol. 51/No. RR-9
This report provides updated recommendations for prevention and control
of hantavirus infections associated with rodents in the United States.
It supersedes the previous report (CDC. Hantavirus infection---southwestern
United States: interim recommendations for risk reduction. MMWR 1993;42[No.
RR-11]:1--13). These recommendations are based on principles of rodent
and infection control, and accumulating evidence that most infections
result from exposure, in closed spaces, to active infestations of infected
rodents. The recommendations contain updated specific measures and precautions
for limiting household, recreational, and occupational exposure to rodents,
eliminating rodent infestations, rodent-proofing human dwellings, cleaning
up rodent-contaminated areas and dead rodents, and working in homes
of persons with confirmed hantavirus infection or buildings with heavy
rodent infestations.
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Acrobat Reader format (.pdf) version
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"Hantavirus Infection — Southwestern United States: Interim
Recommendations for Risk Reduction" Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Report, July 30, 1993 / Vol. 42(RR-11);1-13
This report provided interim recommendations for prevention and control
of hantavirus infections associated with rodents in the southwestern
United States.
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version
" Laboratory Management of Agents Associated with Hantavirus
Pulmonary Syndrome: Interim Biosafety Guidelines"
This document provides interim biosafety guidelines for preventing laboratory-associated
infections with agents that cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. It is
also part of the supplement to "Hantavirus Infection-- Southwestern
United States: Interim Recommendations for Risk Reduction", published
in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, May 13, 1994 / 43(RR-7);1-7.
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Reader format (.pdf) version
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version
"Prevent Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome"
This is a downloadable prevention brochure, written for a general
audience.
Preventing
Hantavirus Disease
This multimedia Web version of a 1994 videotape discusses the
nature of HPS and its prevention.
Hantavirus
Pulmonary Syndrome and Animals
CDC's Healthy Pets Healthy People Web site provides an additional
fact sheet on HPS.
State Contacts for Hantavirus Information
This link lists Web sites and telephone numbers for state health departments.
Contact your state health department for localized information on HPS.
Hantavirus Hotline
You may telephone CDC to obtain information on HPS. The number is 1-877-232-3322.
RESOURCES OUTSIDE CDC
National Park
Service Public Health Program
The "Illness and Disease" section of the site offers publications
on HPS as well as on other vector-borne diseases, such as rabies, plague,
and tick-borne diseases.
Mechanical
Rodent-Proofing Techniques: A Training Guide for National Park
Service Employees
Published by the National Park Service in 1997, this guide was prepared
in response to the recognition of HPS. It offers detailed and heavily
illustrated information on rodent biology and habits, building inspection
methods. This manual is designed to make "rodent control in buildings
and attainable goal".
Pan American Health Organization
This Regional Office of the Americas of the World Health Organization
tracks HPS, and many other diseases and health issues.
Hantavirus in the Americas: Guidelines for Diagnosis,
Treatment, Prevention, and Control
Published by PAHO, 1999. As described on PAHO's Web page, "This
publication presents an extensive view of what came to be known as hantavirus
pulmonary syndrome (HPS), its clinical manifestations, methods of preventing
infection, and measures taken by governments in the Region to monitor
hantaviruses and educate health professionals and the general public
about the disease." The publication is available in both English
and Spanish.
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