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n. (context virology English) Any virus of the genus (taxlink Hantavirus genus noshow=1), transmitted by aerosolized rodent excreta or rodent bites, especially the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peromyscus. Hantaviruses cause (w: Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome) (HPS): incubation lasts for 1–5 weeks, sickness begins with fever and muscle aches, followed by shortness of breath and coughing.
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Hantaviruses are single-stranded, enveloped, negative sense RNA viruses in the Bunyaviridae family which can kill humans.
They normally infect rodents and do not cause disease in these hosts. Humans may become infected with hantaviruses through contact with rodent urine, saliva, or feces. Some strains of hantaviruses cause potentially fatal diseases in humans, such as hantavirus hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS)—also known as hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS)— while others have not been associated with known human disease. HPS (HCPS) is a "rare respiratory illness associated with the inhalation of aerosolized rodent excreta (urine and feces) contaminated by hantavirus particles."
Human infections of hantaviruses have almost entirely been linked to human contact with rodent excrement, but recent human-to-human transmission has been reported with the Andes virus in South America.
Hantavirus is named for the Hantan River area in South Korea where an early outbreak was observed. The virus was isolated in the late 1970s by Karl M. Johnson and Ho-Wang Lee.
Usage examples of "hantavirus".
Carl did the work secretly at a Mexican lab where he was already working in Level Four on a hantavirus of the same name.
Just last year there had been an outbreak in the Southwest of hantavirus, an airborne viral infection carried by rats and field mice.
Bryson risked snake bite and hantavirus to trudge up unforgiving mountains, plod through swollen rivers, and yearn for cream sodas and hot showers.
A ground squirrel chattered angrily at her, and she sat staring at it, thinking of rabies and Hantavirus and too tired to even throw a well-chewed pine cone at it.
Rats brought leptospirosis, hantavirus and rat-bite fever, and they were only the fatal diseases.
Now a virulent new hantavirus has emerged, which has begun to lay waste to the peace-loving tribe.
The first two concerned three ARDS deaths a year ago in the Baghdad area that were unexplained but finally attributed to a hantavirus carried by desert mice drawn into the city by lack of food in the fields.
As I understand it, they’re making progress on hantaviruses that have appeared near there.
Of course, hantaviruses like the ones your people are examining are transmitted in the same manner Machupo is.
His jottings to himself back then emphasized an unusual combination of hantavirus and hemorrhagic fever symptoms and some connection to monkeys.
That designation stuck with it after intensive scientific detective work eventually determined the disease was a new strain of hantavirus, a lethal hemorrhagic fever whose occurrence was never previously recorded in North America.
Codes on buildings indicated what was inside them, and I recognized symbols for mustard gas and nerve agents, and those for Ebola, Anthrax and Hantavirus.
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And I might as well throw in Rocky Mountain spotted fever and hantavirus.
In 1993 a single outbreak of hantavirus killed thirty-two people in the southwestern United States, and the following year the disease claimed its first victim on the AT when a hiker contracted it after sleeping in a “.