Sin-Nombre-Virus

The Sin Nombre virus ( from Spanish, translated as: virus without name) belongs to the genus Hantavirus ( family Bunyaviridae ).

The genome consists of three segments of a linear, single-stranded RNA of negative polarity, which are associated with the capsid proteins and spirally arranged.

It is an enveloped virus whose natural host is the deer mouse. On the dried excrement, the virus of the air in the form of an aerosol, into the human lung.

The Sin Nombre virus is among other things the trigger of hantavirus - associated pulmonary syndrome ( HPS). The mortality from this disease is between 30 and 40%.