Hantavirus Tracker is a hobby aggregator. It pulls public outbreak
alerts and news, groups them by country, and renders a simple world
map you can scan in five seconds. It rebuilds itself once an hour.
This is not a medical resource.
Nothing here is clinical advice, diagnostic information, or an
official outbreak declaration. If you think you've been exposed to
hantavirus, contact your healthcare provider or local health
authority. For US guidance, see the
CDC.
For global outbreak surveillance, see
WHO Disease Outbreak News.
Where the data comes from
ProMED-mail — moderated outbreak alert network run
by the International Society for Infectious Diseases. We scrape the
public hantavirus search results page hourly.
promedmail.org
Google News RSS for the query hantavirus
— a firehose of press coverage from around the world.
CDC HPS surveillance — the static "US snapshot"
box uses the most recent annual aggregate published by CDC
(1993 – 2023, refreshed when CDC posts new totals).
cdc.gov
How country detection works
A simple regex looks for country names (and a few aliases — e.g.
California or U.S. roll up to USA) in each
article title. Items whose title doesn't name a country aren't placed
on the map but still appear in the news list below it.
Spread arcs
The animated dashed lines aren't real-time travel data. They're
hardcoded routes for major outbreaks the news has explicitly
described — for example, the 2026 Argentina cruise-ship Andes-virus
outbreak with passengers returning to the US, Chile, and Brazil.
They're meant to convey "this story has a known geographic
trajectory," not to claim transmission paths.
What's missing
WHO Disease Outbreak News — their listing page is
JavaScript-rendered, so we'd need a headless browser to scrape it.
WHO statements still flow through Google News when major outlets
cover them.
State / sub-national resolution — the country
centroids are population-weighted but coarse. A 2026 Argentina
outbreak shows up in the middle of the country, not where it
actually occurred.
Per-post ProMED links — ProMED's site uses
JavaScript click handlers, so individual post URLs aren't in the
HTML. Items link back to the search page; you can find the
specific post there.