How to Use hantavirus in a Sentence

hantavirus

noun

• Keep them out of your stuff with screw-top plastic containers, which, although bulky, keep your PB and J free of hantavirus.
  — Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2017
• The reservation dealt with its own outbreak in 1993 of the hantavirus, a severe pulmonary disease spread by rodents.
  — NBC News, 16 Mar. 2020
• The chemical weapons may be gone but asbestos, mold, broken pipes and hantavirus-carrying mice plague some of the 1940s-era buildings that have been mothballed for years.
  — Jade McDowell, The Seattle Times, 5 Feb. 2018
• People are rarely exposed to hantavirus because rodents tend to avoid humans.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2022
• Several types have been identified in the U.S. and each hantavirus has a primary rodent host.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2021
• They are known to be reservoirs for such threats to humans as hantavirus, typhus and the bacterium responsible for bubonic plague.
  — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• In 2012, a booming population of deer mice in the park caused a rare hantavirus outbreak, which killed three people and sickened another seven.
  — Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2020
• The most common modern theory suggests that the outbreaks may have been a form of hantavirus, similar to the hantavirus pulmonary syndrome that struck the American southwest in the 1990s.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 24 May 2022
• Provide hantavirus clean-up kits in all facilities entered by staff.
  — Cathie Anderson, sacbee, 16 Mar. 2018
• The most common modern theory suggests that the outbreaks may have been a form of hantavirus, similar to a hantavirus pulmonary syndrome that struck the American southwest in the 1990s.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 13 May 2019
• Mice and other rodents frequently use these rock shelters, and in areas with hantavirus and other scary organisms.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 16 Jan. 2020
• Infected rodents shed hantavirus through their saliva, urine and feces.
  — Gig Conaughton, Pomerado News, 1 Mar. 2018
• Anyone who comes into contact with a rodent that carries hantavirus is at risk of contracting an infection.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 2 May 2018
• Not only are these populations often widely dispersed and difficult to access, but many of the animals (such as mice, in the case of hantavirus) have pretty short lifespans.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 July 2020
• Wild rodents, particularly wild mice, are the main carriers of hantavirus.
  — Ramona Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2019
• Smucker says that wildlife biologists are used to protecting themselves from wildlife diseases that can infect humans, such as rabies or hantavirus.
  — Eric Niiler, Wired, 1 July 2021
• Some hantaviruses produce a rare but deadly disease called hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
  — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 21 July 2017
• The authors of that study note that hepatitis can be spread by flooding, droughts can bring in rodents that are infected with hantavirus, and warmer temperatures can lengthen the life of mosquitoes carrying malaria.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 June 2023
• Super rare but super deadly: Officials confirm Michigan's first human case of a deadly hantavirus.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 9 June 2021
• In Xi’an in Shaanxi province, tens of thousands of residents were ordered to quarantine following outbreaks this month of covid-19 and hemorrhagic fever, a seasonal disease caused by the hantavirus.
  — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
• Doctors finally tested her for the rare hantavirus; results came back positive on February 5.
  — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Deer mice host hantavirus, and people contract it when fresh droppings, urine, saliva or nesting matter are disturbed, causing them to breathe in infectious materials.
  — Molly Sullivan, sacbee, 31 May 2018
• Although hantavirus infections are rare, fatality rates are quite high.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2021
• In 1993, there was an outbreak of a similar illness in the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States, which researchers eventually identified as a new sort of hantavirus, a type of disease that is transmitted by rodents.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 20 May 2020
• At a news conference this week with Ruiz and other medical professionals, it was announced that initial testing also appeared to rule out Covid-19, Legionella and hantavirus, which can be spread by rodents.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2022
• Although hantavirus infections are rare, fatality rates are high.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2022
• According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the last three decades or so, around thirty people contract hantavirus each year; on average, only seven people catch the bubonic plague annually.
  — Elizabeth Barber, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2022
• That work ties into existing programs that monitor populations of skunks, bats, prairie dogs, gray foxes, birds and other animals for all kinds of disease-causing pathogens including rabies, West Nile virus, hantavirus and even the plague.
  — Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 15 Feb. 2022
• Mammal specimens, originally sampled for other reasons and preserved at the Museum of Southwestern Biology, were used by researchers to identify the pathogen as a hantavirus and its wildlife source as deer mice.
  — Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2020
• As a result, more rodent populations enter into human communities in search of food, increasing the potential to spread hantavirus.
  — Maureen Lichtveld, The Conversation, 10 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024