{
  "schema_version": 1,
  "kind": "condition",
  "id": "hantavirus-disease",
  "name": "Hantavirus Disease",
  "category": "chronic",
  "sources": "Hantavirus Cardiopulmonary Syndrome - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf (NBK459378) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459378/ · ICPC-3 (WONCA International Classification of Primary Care, 3rd edition) class AD14.04 - condition scope only, no dose · No dose - referral pathway, no medicine given in primary care",
  "review_status": "reviewed",
  "verified_against": "No dose - referral pathway, no medicine given in primary care · Hantavirus Disease - disease-level clinical article (hantavirus-disease-full.txt)",
  "verified_date": "2026-08",
  "treatments": [
    {
      "id": 887,
      "generic": "No drug therapy in primary care (Recognition & Referral)",
      "line": 1,
      "is_adjunct": false,
      "form": null,
      "strength_mg": null,
      "adult_dose": "Rodent-borne viral illness causing fever with renal or pulmonary syndromes. Not an established clinical entity in Egypt, so this is a recognise-and-refer diagnosis if ever suspected in someone with relevant travel or rodent exposure abroad.",
      "adult_duration": "Refer",
      "dose_source": "No dose - referral pathway, no medicine given in primary care",
      "rationale": "Rodent-borne viral illness causing fever with renal or pulmonary syndromes. Not an established clinical entity in Egypt, so this is a recognise-and-refer diagnosis if ever suspected in someone with relevant travel or rodent exposure abroad.",
      "cautions": [
        "Not endemic in Egypt. Relevant to a returning traveller or an imported case; consider the travel history before anything else.",
        "No medicine is prescribed for this in primary care - this entry is for recognition and referral. Anything given is decided by the service it is referred to.",
        "RED FLAG - Rapid respiratory compromise (dyspnea, pulmonary edema, hypotension, shock) develops 3 to 6 days after the initial prodrome.",
        "RED FLAG - Thrombocytopenia or a decreasing platelet count warrants immediate hospital admission.",
        "RED FLAG - Respiratory distress suggesting hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, oliguria or acute renal failure, or rodent exposure in a region where hantavirus is known to circulate."
      ],
      "peds_mgkg_low": null,
      "peds_mgkg_high": null,
      "peds_max_mg": null,
      "peds_basis": null,
      "peds_unit": null,
      "peds_note": "Children follow the same pathway: recognise and refer. No primary-care medicine is implied.",
      "peds_min_weight_kg": null,
      "peds_max_weight_kg": null,
      "peds_age_min_months": null,
      "peds_age_max_months": null,
      "peds_age_bands": null,
      "peds_doses": null,
      "brands": [],
      "condition_id": "hantavirus-disease"
    }
  ]
}