A live, source-linked map of hantavirus worldwide.

Not medical advice

HantaVirusTrack is an informational tool. Nothing on this site — case markers on the map, statistics, alerts, news headlines, community posts, community-submitted cases, or anything else — is medical advice, professional advice, or a substitute for consultation with a qualified healthcare professional, public health authority, or licensed medical provider.

If you have symptoms consistent with hantavirus infection (fever, fatigue, muscle aches, headache, dizziness, abdominal pain, followed by shortness of breath in severe cases), or you believe you have been exposed to rodents, rodent droppings, or contaminated environments, contact your healthcare provider or your local public health authority immediately. Do not delay seeking care because of anything you read or see on HantaVirusTrack.

If you are experiencing a medical emergency, call your local emergency number (911 in Canada and the United States) or go directly to the nearest emergency department.

No professional relationship

Use of HantaVirusTrack does not create any provider-patient, doctor-patient, lawyer-client, fiduciary, or other professional relationship between you and the operator of HantaVirusTrack.

Data accuracy

Case data on HantaVirusTrack is aggregated from third-party sources, including the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), ProMED-mail, the Public Health Agency of Canada, individual state, provincial, and national health departments, and community submissions from individual users. We apply normalization, deduplication, and human moderation, but we make no representation or warranty regarding the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, currency, or reliability of any case data, statistic, news headline, community post, community submission, or any other content on the site.

Case data may be delayed, incomplete, misclassified, misgeocoded, outdated, or otherwise incorrect. The absence of a case in a region on the map does not mean there are no cases in that region — it may mean we have not yet ingested or received that information, the source has not yet reported it, or the case is still in our moderation queue.

Community submissions are reviewed by human moderators against a verifiable source URL, but moderators may make mistakes. We are not liable for inaccuracies in any case, including community-submitted cases that pass moderation.

Third-party content

News headlines and community posts displayed in the live signal feature are produced by third parties (newsrooms, social-media users on Bluesky, Reddit, Mastodon, and other platforms) and surfaced through automated aggregation. Inclusion does not constitute endorsement, verification, or recommendation. Community posts are explicitly marked UNVERIFIED and may contain inaccurate, misleading, or false information. You are responsible for evaluating the credibility of all third-party content. External links lead to websites operated by third parties; we do not control or take responsibility for them.

Watch alerts

The Watch zone feature offers free email and browser-push alerts (and SMS, when SMS is available) triggered by case publication within user-defined geographic zones. These alerts are not guaranteed to be delivered, are not a real-time emergency notification system, and are not a substitute for any official public-health alert, evacuation, or warning system. Alerts may be delayed, fail entirely, be misdirected, or be incomplete due to upstream data delays, moderation queue depth, third-party email or SMS provider outages, your device's notification settings, network conditions, or our own service interruptions. Do not rely on Watch alerts as your sole or primary means of being informed about disease activity in your area. Always consult official public-health authorities for actionable risk information.

Not for clinical, legal, or emergency use

HantaVirusTrack is not designed, intended, certified, validated, or authorized for use in clinical decision-making, medical diagnosis, patient triage, public-health emergency response, official surveillance, life-safety or critical infrastructure systems, legal proceedings as evidence of disease presence or absence, or underwriting, insurance, or actuarial analysis. If you intend to use HantaVirusTrack data for any of these purposes, you do so entirely at your own risk and you agree that the operator bears no responsibility for any decision, action, or outcome resulting from such use.

As-is, no warranty

HantaVirusTrack is provided AS IS and AS AVAILABLE, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, non-infringement, uninterrupted availability, security, or freedom from errors. The Service is provided at no cost; the warranties typically attached to paid consumer goods do not apply. Nothing in this disclaimer limits any liability that cannot lawfully be limited under applicable Canadian law.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall the operator of HantaVirusTrack, its contributors, moderators, or affiliates be liable to you or to any third party for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages — including damages for personal injury, illness, death, lost profits, lost data, business interruption, or emotional distress — arising out of or related to your use of, reliance on, or inability to use HantaVirusTrack, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. The Terms of Service contain an enforceable cap on aggregate liability.

Acknowledgment

By using HantaVirusTrack, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to this Disclaimer in full, and that you understand HantaVirusTrack is an informational reference tool only, not a substitute for qualified professional advice, medical care, or official public-health guidance.

Contact

Questions: [contact email].

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in your jurisdiction (whichever is greater), to create an account, submit a case, or apply for researcher access. By using the Service you represent that you meet this requirement and that you have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms.

2. The Service

HantaVirusTrack is a free informational website that aggregates and displays publicly available data about hantavirus cases from third-party sources, augmented by community submissions backed by verifiable source URLs. The Service includes a public live map, case listing, statistics, a live news/social signal feed, free user accounts with custom geographic alert zones, a community case-submission feature, and an application-based "verified researcher" tier with elevated API rate limits. All features are free for all users. The Service is not a medical, emergency-response, or clinical decision-making tool. See the Disclaimer above.

3. Accounts

Public portions of the Service are usable without an account. Watch zones, case submissions, and researcher applications require an account. You agree to provide accurate information, keep your authentication credentials confidential, notify us promptly of unauthorized access at [security email], and accept responsibility for all activity under your account. We may suspend or terminate any account at any time, with or without notice, including for violation of these Terms.

4. Donations (Buy Me a Coffee)

The Service is free. Donations are voluntary and processed by Buy Me a Coffee (buymeacoffee.com/omarbafagih); we do not see card details. Donations are not tax-deductible — the operator is not a registered charity and donations cannot be claimed as charitable contributions. Donations are not consideration for any feature and do not unlock additional access. Buy Me a Coffee handles refund requests under its own terms; we do not process refunds.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• (a) use the Service for any unlawful purpose;
• (b) scrape, crawl, or extract bulk data from the Service except via the public API within its documented rate limits, or via researcher-tier rate limits if approved;
• (c) reverse-engineer or attempt to derive source code from the Service;
• (d) interfere with, disrupt, or impose unreasonable load on the Service;
• (e) circumvent any rate limit, access control, or technical protection;
• (f) impersonate any person or misrepresent your affiliation, including in submissions or researcher applications;
• (g) submit community case reports without a verifiable source URL, or with a source you do not have a good-faith belief credibly reports the case;
• (h) coordinate to inject false data or harass identifiable individuals through submissions;
• (i) use Service data to make medical, clinical, emergency, life-safety, insurance, underwriting, or legal decisions; or
• (j) suggest endorsement by, or affiliation with, the operator or any of our data sources without express written permission.

6. Intellectual property

The Service software, design, our content, and the "HantaVirusTrack" wordmark are owned by the operator and protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual-property laws. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service in accordance with these Terms. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. Third-party content surfaced through the Service (case data, news headlines, social posts) is owned by its respective rights-holders and is displayed under fair use, fair dealing, applicable license, or platform API terms. Copyright takedown notices: [contact email].

7. User content (submissions, applications, profile)

You may submit content to the Service, including community case submissions, researcher applications, profile information, watch zone names, and contact-form messages ("User Content"). You retain ownership of your User Content. You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to host, store, process, modify (for normalization, deduplication, formatting, and editorial moderation), display, and distribute your User Content as part of the Service.

You represent and warrant that:

• (a) you have the right to grant the foregoing license;
• (b) your User Content does not infringe any third-party intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, or other right;
• (c) source URLs you submit are accurate, accessible, and credibly support the case details you submit;
• (d) you have read the source you cite and have a good-faith belief in the accuracy of what you submit;
• (e) you are not using the Service to harass, defame, or out any identifiable individual; and
• (f) your User Content otherwise complies with these Terms.

If a community submission is approved by a moderator and published, your account's display name may be shown publicly as attribution, or the case may appear anonymously if no display name is set in your profile. You can update your display name at any time, which affects future approvals; published cases keep the attribution that was current at the time of approval unless you specifically request removal.

8. Moderation

All content that reaches the public map — automated and community-submitted — is reviewed by a human moderator. Moderators may approve, reject, edit, or delete any submission for any reason, including inability to verify the cited source, suspected duplicate, off-topic content, or violation of these Terms. Moderation is editorial and discretionary; we are not obliged to publish any specific submission.

9. API and embed access

The public API and basic embed widgets are free for all users, subject to documented rate limits (60 requests per minute, 10,000 per day for default access; 600 requests per minute and elevated quotas for approved researchers). If approved for researcher-tier access, you additionally agree to keep API keys confidential, comply with documented rate limits, display attribution ("Data: HantaVirusTrack — hantavirustrack.org") in any user-facing surface, not resell or redistribute raw Service data to third parties, not combine Service data into a product materially substitutable for the Service itself, and respect the terms of the original data sources where they flow through. We may revoke API keys, suspend embeds, or revoke researcher access for any violation.

10. Commercial electronic messages (CASL)

Where you have provided express or implied consent under Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), we may send you commercial electronic messages relating to the Service. Every commercial message we send identifies us, includes our mailing address, and provides a free, immediate unsubscribe mechanism. Transactional messages directly tied to your account or actions (alert deliveries, submission status, security notices) are exempt under CASL and may continue even if you have unsubscribed from marketing.

11. Watch alerts

Watch alerts are best-effort and may fail. They are not a real-time emergency notification system. See the Disclaimer above. You acknowledge and agree that we are not liable for any damages arising from delayed, failed, missing, or inaccurate alerts.

12. Termination

You may terminate your account at any time via the Account → Danger zone page. We may terminate or suspend your account, with or without cause and with or without notice, including for violation of these Terms. On termination your right to use the Service ends immediately. Sections 6, 7, 9, 12 through 19 survive termination.

13. Disclaimer of warranties

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, THAT CASE DATA (FROM ANY SOURCE) IS ACCURATE OR COMPLETE, OR THAT ALERTS WILL BE DELIVERED.

NOTHING IN THESE TERMS LIMITS OR EXCLUDES ANY WARRANTY OR CONDITION THAT CANNOT BE LIMITED OR EXCLUDED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

14. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE OPERATOR, ITS CONTRIBUTORS, MODERATORS, OR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES — INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, PERSONAL INJURY, ILLNESS, DEATH, OR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS — ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE, THESE TERMS, OR YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, AND REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE CLAIM IS BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER THEORY.

BECAUSE THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED AT NO COST AND YOU HAVE NOT PAID US ANY FEES, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS SHALL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED CANADIAN DOLLARS (CAD $100).

NOTHING IN THIS SECTION LIMITS OR EXCLUDES ANY LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE LAWFULLY LIMITED OR EXCLUDED UNDER ONTARIO LAW.

15. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the operator, its contributors, moderators, and affiliates from any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to your use of the Service, your violation of these Terms, your violation of any law or third-party right, your User Content (including any community case submission), your representations or warranties under §7 being false or misleading, or any reliance by you or any third party on Service data, alerts, or output of the Service in making medical, clinical, emergency, life-safety, insurance, or legal decisions.

16. Force majeure

We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, pandemics, government actions, war, civil disturbances, internet or telecommunications failures, or third-party service-provider failures (including Buy Me a Coffee, Mapbox, Vercel, Supabase, Resend, Twilio, and Sentry).

17. Disputes

Informal resolution first. Before commencing any formal dispute, contact us at [contact email]. We will respond within 30 days. We will both make a good-faith effort to resolve the dispute through direct negotiation for at least 60 days following your initial notice.

Small claims court. Either party may bring an individual claim in the Small Claims Court of the applicable jurisdiction (in Ontario, the Small Claims Court of the Superior Court of Justice).

Courts of Ontario. Any dispute not resolved informally and outside small-claims jurisdiction shall be brought exclusively in the courts of the Province of Ontario, sitting in the City of Toronto. You and we attorn to the exclusive jurisdiction of those courts.

No mandatory arbitration; no class-action waiver. Nothing in these Terms requires you to arbitrate or waive any right to participate in a class proceeding under applicable law.

Quebec / international users. Nothing in this section displaces any non-waivable consumer-protection rights under the law of the place of your habitual residence.

18. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

19. Modifications, miscellaneous, and contact

Modifications. We may modify these Terms at any time. Material changes will be communicated via email (for users with accounts) and via a banner on the Service for at least 30 days before they take effect.

Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force and effect.

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Disclaimer, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service.

No waiver. Failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver.

Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign freely.

Notices. Notices to you may be sent to the email associated with your account or by posting on the Service. Notices to us must be sent to [mailing address] with a copy to [contact email].

Language. These Terms are in English. Les parties confirment leur volonté que cette convention soit rédigée en langue anglaise. Translations are for convenience; the English version controls.

Contact.

Omar Bafagih, doing business as HantaVirusTrack

[mailing address]

[contact email]