Status Guide
Hantavirus Case Statuses and Monitoring
This page explains the plain-language meaning of the status labels and monitoring terms used across the Hantavirus Outbreak Tracker. It is intended to help readers interpret case pages and update pages, not to replace clinical or public-health guidance.
Public outbreak reporting often mixes confirmed laboratory results, precautionary monitoring, suspected exposure, and travel-contact follow-up in the same timeline. The tracker keeps those distinctions visible so readers can understand what is verified, what is provisional, and what is simply being observed.
Common case-status labels
- Confirmed: reporting indicates a confirmed hantavirus infection.
- Suspected: a case is under evaluation or described publicly as a possible infection.
- Symptomatic: symptoms are reported, but confirmation status may still be evolving.
- Asymptomatic: the person is being followed because of exposure context despite no reported symptoms.
- Recovered: the person was reported to have improved or recovered.
- Deceased: reporting indicates the person died.
What monitoring terms usually mean
Monitoring labels can refer to home follow-up, facility observation, isolation, quarantine, or transport-linked contact tracing. They do not always imply infection. In many outbreak timelines, a monitored person is being observed because of shared travel, close contact, or repatriation logistics.
Why a record can remain on the tracker after a negative test
Public-source timelines often keep reporting on people who were tested, isolated, or traced even after they are ruled out. The tracker can preserve those records because they still explain how the outbreak response unfolded and why related contacts or facilities appear elsewhere in the dataset.
How to read these terms in context
- Use case pages for individual or cohort-level details.
- Use country, facility, and update pages to see how the same status labels connect across the wider timeline.
- Use the changelog and update archive to understand when a label changed from suspected to confirmed, monitored to ruled out, or symptomatic to recovered.
Return to the tracker homepage, review the testing and exposure guide, browse the outbreak changelog, or open the JSON dataset.