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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Those Yosemite visitors who show symptoms of hantavirus should seek medical attention---although there is no specific treatment for the virus, oxygen can help patients breathe and anti-viral medication can protect the kidneys.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2012
• But diminishing snowpacks have sent the creatures seeking shelter inside people’s homes, where they have been documented transmitting hantavirus.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 8 Aug. 2022
• Some diseases — both viral and bacterial — are known to spread from mice and other rodents to humans, including hantavirus, Lassa fever, and leptospirosis, often when the animals’ feces or urine contaminates people’s food.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 17 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 3 Aug 2024