Methodology
How the Hantavirus Outbreak Tracker Works
The tracker is designed to turn scattered public reporting into structured outbreak records that can be searched, mapped, filtered, and downloaded. Each record is intended to preserve enough context for users to understand what changed and why.
What data the tracker organizes
- Case names or labels used to distinguish people, cohorts, or monitoring groups.
- Status labels such as confirmed, suspected, symptomatic, asymptomatic, recovered, and deceased.
- Location context including country, region, facilities, transport, or repatriation destination.
- Timeline and movement notes that explain monitoring, isolation, evacuation, or travel exposure changes.
The downloadable dataset is published as JSON so researchers, journalists, and analysts can inspect the same underlying case list that powers the tracker views.
How updates are reflected
When public or official reporting adds new cases or changes a case status, the dataset can be updated to reflect that change, and the homepage summary, maps, timelines, and related views update accordingly on the next deployment.
What the tracker is not
It is not a diagnostic service or a source of clinical advice. It is an outbreak-monitoring and data-organization layer that should be used alongside official guidance.
Return to the tracker homepage, review the background guide, browse the full update archive, review the outbreak changelog, or inspect the JSON dataset.