| hantaviruses in rodents and humans, inner mongolia autonomous region, china. | surveys were carried out in 2003-2006 to better understand the epidemiology of hantaviruses in the inner mongolia autonomous region of china (inner mongolia). hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (hfrs) was first reported in this region in 1955 and has been an important public health problem here since then. during 1955-2006, 8,309 persons with hfrs were reported in inner mongolia (average incidence rate 0.89/100,000), and 261 (3.14%) died. before the 1990s, all hfrs cases occurred in northeast ... | 2009 | 19523286 |