a Haemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome(HFRS: later renamed hantavirus disease, HVD)first recognized in Heilongjiang, China in the 1930s, and came to the attention of the West during the Korean war when over 3000 UN troops were afflicted It transpired that the disease was not new and had been described by the Chinese 1000 years earlier In 1974, the causative was isolated from the Korean Stripped field mice and was called Hantaan virus In 1995, a new disease entity called hantavirus pulmonary syndrome was described in the"four corners" region of the U.s◼ Haemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome (HFRS: later renamed hantavirus disease, HVD) first recognized in Heilongjiang, China in the 1930s, and came to the attention of the West during the Korean war when over 3000 UN troops were afflicted ◼ It transpired that the disease was not new and had been described by the Chinese 1000 years earlier ◼ In 1974, the causative was isolated from the Korean Stripped field mice and was called Hantaan virus ◼ In 1995, a new disease entity called hantavirus pulmonary syndrome was described in the “four corners” region of the U.S