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Seoul virus is a rodent-borne public health challenging Hantavirus found worldwide and is one of multiple hantaviruses belonging to family Bunyaviridae and genus Hantavirus that cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS), mainly in Europe and Asia. Seoul virus was first described by Dr. Ho-Wang Lee, a virologist, in Korea in 1982. It was originally assumed that hemorrhagic fever was caused due to contact with field mice (Genus Apodemus), but Dr. Lee found that it could also be caused by contact with brown or Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus). As the infection was first discovered in an apartment in Seoul, the capital of South Korea the virus was named "Seoul Virus"(Lee et al., 1982). Seoul virus falls under BSL-3. |
