Hantavirus is not only not more common, but not so much a disease in Africa.
Africa is full of hemorrhagic diseases: Lassa Fever, Marburg, or Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever. But not so much Hantavirus.
Africa is full of hemorrhagic diseases: Lassa Fever, Marburg, or Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever. But not so much Hantavirus.
It's been over a decade since I worked in infectious disease epi, and even then not in tropical diseases, so I'm lucky to remember anything at all.
But my point stands: Africa is full of hemorrhagic fevers, which makes symptomatic diagnosis of Ebola difficult.