The victims also succumbed to respiratory distress syndrome, similar to the hantavirus pulmonary syndrome known in the Americas but different from the hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome that is more commonly associated with hantavirus infection in Asia.
此外，病例出現呼吸窘迫症候群症狀，不同於亞洲地區常見的出血熱與腎症候群，比較類似美洲的漢他病毒肺症候群。