 Lethality of ANDV in hamsters is not true of all viruses causing HCPS; hamsters infected with Sin Nombre virus, for example, show no symptoms of disease.The availability of this model allows for the study of various drugs and other treatments that may affect the treatment of all HCPS-causing hantavirus infections.HFRS, also known as Korean hemorrhagic fever, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, and nephropathis epidemica, encompasses a group of clinically similar illnesses caused by species of hantaviruses such as Andes virus.