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Dtsch Med Wochenschr 2022; 147(24/25): 1629-1634
DOI: 10.1055/a-1817-5129
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Infektionsausbruch bei deutschen und finnischen Soldaten während des 2. Weltkriegs im Östlichen Lappland – Erstbeschreibung der Hantavirus-Erkrankung im deutschen Sprachraum

Infection outbreak among German and Finish troups in Eastern Lapland during World War II – First description of hantavirus disease in the German language area
Jukka Mustonen
1   Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Finland
2   Department of Internal Medicine, Tampere University Hospital, Finland
,
Heikki Henttonen
3   Wildlife Ecology, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Finland
,
Antti Vaheri
4   Department of Virology, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Finland
,
Lothar Zöller
5   Richard-Huber-Str. 35, 85221 Dachau
,
Detlev H. Krüger
6   Institut für Virologie, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Gliedkörperschaft der Freien Universität Berlin und der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
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Vor 8 Jahrzehnten erschien in der Deutschen Medizinischen Wochenschrift ein Bericht über ein „schlammfieberähnliches Krankheitsbild bei deutschen Truppen in Lappland“ im Zusammenhang mit einem im Kriegsjahr 1942 beobachteten Ausbruchsgeschehen. Die Beschreibung dieses Krankheitsbildes, das damals über 1000 Soldaten betraf, dürfte die älteste Beschreibung der Hantavirus-Erkrankung im deutschen Sprachraum sein. Heute ist die Hantavirus-Erkrankung, in Nord- und Mitteleuropa auch als Nephropathia epidemica bekannt, eine der häufigsten meldepflichtigen Viruserkrankungen in Deutschland und Finnland.

Abstract

Eight decades ago, a report on „a swamp fever-like disease in German troups in Lapland“ was published in this journal. The disease outbreak had occurred in 1942 and affected more than 1000 soldiers at the Finish front. The published, precise analysis of the clinical picture was obviously the first description of hantavirus disease in the German language area. Nowadays, hantavirus disease – in Central and Northern Europe also known as Nephropathia epidemica – is one of the most frequent notifiable virus diseases in Germany and Finland.

Schlüsselwörter

Hantavirus - Nephropathia epidemica - Puumalavirus - Rötelmaus - Zoonose

Key words

bank vole - hantavirus - nephropathia epidemica - Puumala virus - zoonosis


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