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Volume 30, Number 8—August 2024
Dispatch

Recurrent Occupational Hantavirus Infections Linked to Feeder Rodent Breeding Farm, Taiwan, 2022

Kung-Ching Wang, Chih-Kai Chang, Shu-Fen Chang, Pei-Yun Shu, Hsi-Chieh Wang, Shin-Wei Su, Fang-Ling Lin, Chung-Yu Wang, and Chia-ping Su1Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: Taiwan Centers for Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taipei, Taiwan (K.-C. Wang, C.-K. Chang, S.-F. Chang, P.-Y. Shu, C.-p. Su); Institute of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, National Taiwan University (H.-C. Wang, S.-W. Su, F.-L. Lin, C.-Y. Wang); National Tsing Hua University School of Medicine, Hsinchu, Taiwan (C.-p. Su)

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Table

Results of diagnostic testing of rodents for Seoul virus, by date trapped, in study of recurrent occupational hantavirus infections linked to feeder rodent breeding farm, Taiwan *

Species No. IgG-positive/no. tested (%)
2022 Nov 5–9 2023 Feb 11–13
Feeder rodents
   Mus musculus 0/40 (0) NA
   Rattus norvegicus
 3/8 (37.5)
 NA
Wild rodents
   Rattus tanezumi 0/5 (0) NA
   Rattus norvegicus NA 1/3 (33.3)
   Suncus murinus NA 0/5 (0)

*NA, not applicable.

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1Current affiliation: New Taipei Municipal TuCheng Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan.

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