Hantaan virus
Virus Hantaan (hantavirus)
- Date
- 1976 · confidence high
- Place
- Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
- Credited to
- Lee Ho-wang
- People
- 👤 Lee Ho-wang1928–2022
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Isolation of the virus causing haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome from field mice near the Hantan River. It was the first hantavirus known, a family that includes the American Sin Nombre virus.
What it led to
- diagnosis of Korean haemorrhagic fever
- the Hantavax vaccine (1990)
- identification of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (1993)