FIGURE 1:

Epidemiology of hantavirus infections in Europe. Incidence for hantavirus infection in 2019 as recorded by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). More than 4000 cases of hantavirus disease were reported in Europe (0.8 cases per 100,000 population), with detection of PUUV as the causative pathogen in 98% of cases. Finland and Germany accounted for 69% of all reported cases. Distribution of PUUV, Dobrava virus (DOBV), HTNV and Tula virus (TULV) across Europe are depicted by colour. Recent outbreak situations as reported to the ECDC from 2011 to 2021 are indicated with approximately affected cases and year of the outbreak in parenthesis. European countries that do not report hantaviral infections to the ECDC are depicted in grey (Belarus, Denmark, Moldavia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Ukraine).