Russia - Woman died of pneumonia and/or hemorrhagic fever in 8 days - 5 co-workers hospitalized - Samara

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machine translation

In Samara, a woman died of a fever, murine

Another five of her colleagues are in the hospital, presumably with the same diagnosis

None of the relatives did not expect the 50 - year-old Svetlana Golenkova burned for a week. The mother of two children, cheerful sociable woman worked in a branch of RTRS "Samara ORTPTS" about 30 years chief of security. On the night of 24 to 25 February, Svetlana fever. The next day, called the doctor, who diagnosed "pneumonia.

" For four days the temperature is rising sharply, then fell away, anxious children are called "fast". Only in the Medical University Hospital diagnosed "haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome." March 3, Svetlana died.
- My mother had kidney failure - says Alexei, the son of Svetlana Golenkova. - When I went to the factory where she worked with me to the director sent home two officers, who also became ill. With my mom working relation, it is with the same diagnosis is now in hospital.

http://samara.kp.ru/daily/25851.4/2820489/

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Re: Russia - Woman died of pneumonia and/or hemorrhagic fever in 8 days - 5 co-workers hospitalized - Samara

from the CDC . . .

Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome

Rodent(s) involved

Striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius), brown or Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus), bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus), yellow-necked field mouse (Apodemus flavicollis)

Agent

Virus

Where the disease occurs

Primarily in eastern Asia, Russia, Korea, Scandinavia, western Europe, and the Balkans


How the disease spreads

• Breathing in dust that is contaminated with rodent urine or droppings
• Direct contact with rodents or their uring and droppings
• Bite wounds, although this does not happen frequently
• The disease may spread through direct contact from person to person, but it is extremely rare

Additional Information

Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome

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Re: Russia - Woman died of pneumonia and/or hemorrhagic fever in 8 days - 5 co-workers hospitalized - Samara

Paraphrased from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hantavirus :

The causative agents of HFRS are several viruses in the hantavirus family, depending on geographic location. These include Seoul virus, Pumala virus, and Hataan virus, among others. HFRS typically would not present with pneumonia, but other hantaviruses, such as Sin Nombre virus in North America and Andes virus in South America, cause a respiratory illness caused Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS). The hantaviruses typically found in Russa cause HFRS, not HPS. Neither illness typically spreads person to person (with a few rare exceptions in South America).

It remains unclear what happened here. Is the pneumonia just a background infection in an HFRS cluster? Did this woman somehow (perhpas via travel?) come in contact with an HPS hantavirus? Could an aerosol exposure to an HFRS-type hantavirus from, say dried rodent droppings, have caused an HPS presentation? Or is some of this the result of a translation issue with the Russian word for "Hantavirus" (I can imagine the machine translation could mistranslate "hantavirus" as "HFRS" as most hantavirus infections in Russia would be HFRS)? The fact that at least 4 of the 6 cases worked in the same factory might suggest an occupational exposure in either case.