Mouse fever (GLPS)

Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (GLPS) is an acute viral natural-focal disease that occurs with high fever, expressed by general intoxication, hemorrhagic syndrome and kidney damage in the form of nephrosonephritis. The disease has many names: hemorrhagic nephrosonephritis, epidemic nephrosonephritis, Korean, Far Eastern, Manchu, Ural, Transcarpathian, Yaroslavl and Tula hemorrhagic fevers, Scandinavian epidemic nephropathy, Churilov's disease, mouse fever.

From the moment of infection to the appearance of the first signs of the disease, 7-10 days pass (up to a maximum of 40 days). The onset of the disease is similar to a common acute respiratory infection - fever rises, headache, muscle pain, general weakness, loss of appetite, sometimes nausea and vomiting appear.

2020: The incidence of mouse fever in the Russian Federation was the lowest in 10 years

In 2020, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome was detected in 3845 residents of Russia, and the incidence rate was 2.62 per 100 thousand people (the lowest result in 10 years). Such data leads Rospotrebnadzor.

A significant decrease in the registration of cases of mouse fever in 2020, even in GLPS-endemic regions, occurred due to the coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19 which limited the movement of the population, including trips to summer cottages and rural areas, that is, to regions at high risk of human infection with hantaviruses, explained in Rospotrebnadzor.

In 2020, the incidence of mouse fever in the Russian Federation became the lowest in 10 years - 3845 cases

The highest incidence of mouse fever was observed in the Volga Federal District.

The department recalled that rodents are the source of GLPS infection. Most often, people become infected when inhaling dust, visiting the forest, while resting in nature, working in summer cottages and homesteads.

It is known that the incidence of GLPS is characterized by a certain cyclicity, the main causes of which are changes in climatic conditions that affect the activity of vectors of infection, - reported in Rospotrebnadzor.[1]

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