Finnish vole fever on the march further south

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Source: B. Niklasson/Uppsala University

Researchers have discovered that bank voles in southern Sweden (Skåne) carry a virus that can cause hemorrhagic fever in humans. This finding was made more than 500 km south of the previously known range.

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