第16届太平洋科学大会于1987年8月20至30日在南朝鲜汉城召开。亚太地区科学家向大会提交有关肾综合征出血热(HFRS)的论文共37篇,其中中国学者提交11篇。现将大会有关HFRS的进展摘译如下。流行病学新近的血清学调查发现,从香港、日本、马来西亚、菲律宾、新加坡、南太平洋各国以及越南收集的啮齿动物血清内证实有抗汉坦病毒的抗体,提示本病有可能广泛分布于这些地区。每年,亚洲和欧洲约有20万HFRS的病例报道。近年来,已从世界许多城市的家鼠中以及亚洲的HFRS患者中分离到汉城病毒 The 16th Pacific Science Conference was held in Seoul, South Korea from August 20 to 30, 1987. Asia Pacific scientists submitted 37 papers on HFRS to the conference, of which 11 were submitted by Chinese scholars. The text of the General Assembly’s progress on HFRS is hereby translated as follows. A recent serological survey of epidemiology found that anti-Hantavirus antibodies were confirmed in rodent sera collected from Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, the South Pacific countries and Vietnam, suggesting that the disease is likely to be widely distributed among these area. Each year, there are about 200,000 cases of HFRS reported in Asia and Europe. In recent years, Seoul virus has been isolated from domestic mice in many cities of the world as well as in Asian HFRS patients