Sources and further reading

Use this page as the bibliography for the project. Every article on the site cites its own sources at the bottom of that article; this page collects the canonical entries in one place so editors and readers can verify or refresh against the agencies’ current wording.

When agents or editors update articles, they should:

1. Open the relevant source links.
2. Adjust on-site wording only when it still matches authoritative guidance.
3. Update accessed_date and last_reviewed in page frontmatter.
4. Add an entry to Updates summarizing what changed.

United States — CDC

Primary U.S. authority. The hantavirus portal links to consumer-facing overviews and clinician briefs.

• About hantavirus (consumer overview) — referenced by Symptoms, Transmission, HPS incubation and symptom timeline, Hantavirus (HPS) vs flu, Hantavirus in the United States, and the home page.
• Hantavirus prevention (includes exposure basics) — referenced by Prevention, Rodent droppings cleanup, Seasonal cabins, storage, and RVs, and Transmission.
• Rodent control — seal gaps — referenced by Prevention.
• Clean up after rodents — the canonical CDC source for the dust-aware cleaning method described on Rodent droppings cleanup and Seasonal cabins, storage, and RVs.
• Clinical overview — HPS — clinician brief; referenced by Symptoms, HPS incubation and symptom timeline, Diagnosis and testing, Treatment and recovery, Hantavirus (HPS) vs flu, Can hantavirus spread person to person?, Cruise ship outbreak: what U.S. readers should know, and HFRS and Seoul virus.
• Clinical overview — HFRS — clinician brief for hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome; referenced by HFRS and Seoul virus, Treatment and recovery, Diagnosis and testing, and Symptoms.
• Clinical overview index (HPS/HFRS hub) — landing page that links both clinician briefs.

Global context — WHO

Primary global authority. WHO’s health-topic page is a stable hub; Disease Outbreak News (DON) entries are event-specific and may move once an event is closed.

• Hantavirus (health topic) — referenced by Sources, Transmission, Can hantavirus spread person to person?, and HFRS and Seoul virus.
• Disease Outbreak News — Hantavirus cluster linked to cruise ship travel (May 2026) — referenced by Cruise ship outbreak: what U.S. readers should know and Can hantavirus spread person to person?.

Outbreak investigation context — ECDC

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Used for cluster-specific assessments where the U.S. CDC is not the lead investigator.

• ECDC assessment — Hantavirus-associated cluster on a cruise ship — referenced by Cruise ship outbreak: what U.S. readers should know and Can hantavirus spread person to person?.

How this site uses sources

A few editorial conventions worth knowing:

• One quote per page maximum. When the CDC’s exact phrasing matters, articles paraphrase tightly and link out rather than reproducing long excerpts.
• Primary over secondary. When a CDC topic page exists, that is the citation, not a news article that summarized the CDC.
• Stable URLs. The site links to CDC topic URLs that have been audited, not ephemeral PDFs or campaign pages.
• Last reviewed dates. Each page records when its sources were last opened and the wording reconciled.
• Updates log. Material wording changes are recorded in Updates so editors and agents can pick up where the previous pass left off.

Maintenance note

Some CDC PDFs and pages are versioned over time. Prefer linking to stable CDC topic URLs (as above) rather than copying long passages into this site. When a CDC URL retires, run npm run audit:links (network required) and update the affected pages plus the Updates log.

Related navigation

• Updates — newest-first changelog of factual and structural changes.
• FAQ — short answers cross-linked to the topic guides.
• Home page — site overview and three-path navigation by reader intent.