Ecological and epidemiological approaches to surveillance of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome

The paper characterizes an epidemic process of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in the natural foci of this infection, which have a different loimopotential and are located in different types of landscapes. It shows an association of the number of murine rodents and their HFRS infection rates with human morbidity. The size index was the number of the small animals caught per 100 snare-nights. In-depth analysis of some aspects of the epidemic process in HFRS has demonstrated that its higher intensity is observed in the forest and forest-steppe landscapes.