Epidemiological progresses of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in China

摘要

Chinese workers on the epideminology and prevention of HFRS in China have accomplished great achievements since 1981. As the relatively high annual incidence of HFRS sustained in recent years, control measures have to be reenforced. Many problems of HFRS and hantatirus infections are still not well understood or unclear, such as the poly-host nature, and the multi-modes of transmission, the natural history of hantatiruses and their genetic variation occurred in nature etc. The task for effective control of HFRS and the research on its epidemiology in China should be held on a high pirority.