Definition of PARAMYXOVIRUS

Examples of paramyxovirus in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But tests for everything from adenoviruses to paramyxoviruses came back negative. — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, "How the pandemic made this virologist an unlikely cult figure," 28 Apr. 2020 In one such study, his team discovered that mumps, which like measles is caused by a paramyxovirus, had jumped to humans from bats. — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, "How the pandemic made this virologist an unlikely cult figure," 28 Apr. 2020 Wild animals could be used as bioterrorist weapons to spread infectious diseases such as monkeypox, which can be fatal for humans, or avian paramyxovirus, a disease carried by exotic birds that can spread to poultry. — National Geographic, "The World Has a Chance to Make the Wild Animal Trade More Humane," 26 Feb. 2016

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