Aggregating real-time hantavirus outbreak intelligence from 20 authoritative sources worldwide — verified, categorized, and continuously monitored.
Hantavirus Lookout aggregates public outbreak records and source links into a lightweight monitoring dashboard. Records are displayed by reported status: confirmed case, death, suspected/testing, or monitored contact. The dashboard is for situational awareness only; official health authorities remain authoritative for case definitions, public-health guidance, and final counts.
National, regional, and international public-health bodies. Best for confirmed counts and guidance, but updates may lag behind field reports.
Alerting systems such as ProMED that surface emerging reports quickly. Useful for awareness, but details may be preliminary.
Independent dashboards or forums that compile public reports. Helpful for geolocation and timelines, but not authoritative.
Journalism and expert commentary. Useful for context, interviews, and newly reported locations, but counts can change after publication.
Sequence repositories that can support strain and phylogenetic context. They do not replace epidemiological case confirmation.
Background pages and report aggregators. Useful for discovery and context, but individual underlying sources should be checked.
Maintained by Katherine Panozzo at the University of Toledo, this ArcGIS dashboard provides the most comprehensive real-time geolocated hantavirus case dataset publicly available. It aggregates official reports, ProMED alerts, and news into a single interactive map with per-country case counts and epidemiological notes. It serves as the backbone for our geographic surveillance.
Update frequency: Multiple times per weekThe World Health Organization's formal outbreak notification system covering confirmed hantavirus events globally.
Updates: As events occurEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control surveillance reports on hantavirus in EU/EEA member states.
Updates: Weekly / monthlyAfrica Centres for Disease Control and Prevention event-based surveillance for hantavirus across the African continent.
Updates: As events occurUS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hantavirus case surveillance, clinical guidance, and epidemiological data.
Updates: Monthly / as events occurNational Institute for Communicable Diseases of South Africa providing hantavirus surveillance for southern Africa.
Updates: Weekly bulletinsPan American Health Organization regional surveillance covering hantavirus in North, Central, and South America.
Updates: As events occurArgentina's national health ministry reporting confirmed hantavirus cases from endemic provinces including Buenos Aires and Chubut.
Updates: Weekly epidemiological reportsChile's Departamento de Epidemiología publishing confirmed hantavirus case counts and regional surveillance data.
Updates: Weekly / seasonal reportsUK Health Security Agency monitoring imported and rare domestic hantavirus cases through the Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory.
Updates: Quarterly / as events occurThe International Society for Infectious Diseases' Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases — the gold standard for real-time outbreak alerts, often preceding official reports by days.
Updates: Real-time (within hours)University of Toledo's comprehensive geolocated hantavirus dashboard — our primary data backbone for case mapping.
Updates: Multiple times per weekIndependent web-based tracker aggregating publicly reported hantavirus cases with interactive visualizations.
Updates: 2–3 times per weekCommunity-driven epidemiological tracing platform providing supplementary case verification and timeline data.
Updates: WeeklyVolunteer-run surveillance site tracking hantavirus reports from endemic regions with crowd-sourced verification.
Updates: WeeklyLong-running community forum monitoring emerging infectious diseases including hantavirus through news aggregation and member reports.
Updates: DailyCenter for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota — expert-level analysis and news on hantavirus outbreaks and research.
Updates: As stories breakCommunity-edited encyclopedic reference for hantavirus taxonomy, history, and background epidemiology. Used for contextual enrichment only.
Updates: Ongoing community editsGlobal Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data — provides hantavirus genome sequences for phylogenetic analysis and variant tracking.
Updates: As sequences are depositedNational Center for Biotechnology Information's viral genome database — comprehensive hantavirus sequence repository with annotation tools.
Updates: Daily ingestionUnited Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs platform aggregating humanitarian reports, situation updates, and field assessments mentioning hantavirus.
Updates: Daily aggregation