Hantavirus -- Panama
A 9-year-old child from Tonosi was positive for [a] hantavirus [infection] in Los Santos province.
Carlos Munoz, Regional Los Santos Epidemiology Coordinator, stated that this is the 1st case in a child so far in 2018.
Last year [2017] there was also another case in a child in August 2017.
Munoz said that the children who suffer hantavirus infections are not complicated cases and generally maintain only fever from this disease [and do not progress to hantavirus cardiopulmonary
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5722787&promed&0
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