Transparency
Hantavirus Maps is a static educational data project. It uses reviewed official-source summaries and makes uncertainty visible instead of implying exact local risk.
Every map record points to source IDs in the registry.
The site separates reported cases, official alerts, and reservoir evidence.
The site avoids county-level CDC case claims, real-time tracking claims, and exact risk scores.
Reviewed-only feeds and outbreak notes publish source review updates, not unverified case rumors.
Primary public health sources include CDC, WHO, PAHO/WHO, ECDC, and state or national health departments. These sources are preferred for case definitions, official alerts, prevention guidance, and public surveillance summaries.
Supporting scientific or ecology sources may be used for reservoir context, but they are not converted into case counts, infected-animal maps, or exact local risk claims.
Preferred sources are CDC, WHO, PAHO/WHO, ECDC, state health departments, and peer-reviewed CDC publications.
A source must be public, linkable, and clear enough to summarize without guessing.
Each public map or guide page should be able to trace its claims back to one or more source IDs in the registry.
New candidate sources are first treated as review material. They can be recorded in internal reports or reviewed-only feeds before they are promoted into public data snapshots.
A source is promoted only when the wording, geography, time period, limitations, and agency status are clear enough to summarize conservatively.
If a source changes, becomes unavailable, or introduces uncertainty, public copy should prefer the limitation over an unsupported inference.
The MVP excludes rumor-based reports, unsourced social posts, scraped news-only case maps, and unsupported county-level precision.
Reservoir ecology is never converted into exact human risk.
The site does not publish patient locations, suspected cases from unofficial media, travel-clearance advice, or live current-case counters.
The reviewed RSS and JSON feeds are site-update feeds. They may announce reviewed official-source notes, methodology updates, and new educational pages.
They are not live surveillance feeds, public health reporting systems, emergency notification services, or complete outbreak datasets.
Source transparency
Links open official public health or agency-published source material used for the summaries on this page.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
U.S. historical case context and the state-only geography limitation.
CDC states public case data are reported by state only and county-level data cannot be provided publicly.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Explains national notifiable condition reporting and surveillance definitions.
Surveillance case definitions are for public health classification and are not clinical diagnostic guidance for individual patients.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
General description of hantavirus diseases, transmission, reservoirs, symptoms, and risk reduction.
Broad public overview; local health departments remain the source for local reporting requirements and investigations.
World Health Organization
Global disease overview, syndromes, and Andes virus human-to-human transmission caveat.
Global overview; local agencies provide country-specific surveillance.
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
European reservoir ecology and disease syndrome context.
Broad factsheet; local national public health agencies remain authoritative for country-specific notices.
Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization
Americas regional alert, Southern Cone context, and surveillance strengthening recommendations.
Regional aggregate and alert language; country public health agencies remain authoritative for national counts.