How to Use hantavirus in a Sentence

hantavirus

noun

• But by now, the hantavirus was clawing its way into her lungs.
  — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2025
• 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
• Dizziness, fatigue, fever and muscle aches are common symptoms of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in the first four to 10 days of the illness, the CDC said.
  — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
• The reservation dealt with its own outbreak in 1993 of the hantavirus, a severe pulmonary disease spread by rodents.
  — NBC News, 16 Mar. 2020
• Starvation could have been a cause of death but officials are still unsure, Phipps said, noting that dogs do not get sick from hantavirus.
  — Dalia Faheid, CNN, 8 Mar. 2025
• 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
• Rats today are widely seen as filthy, thieving vectors of deadly diseases like plague and hantavirus.
  — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
• 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
• Betsy died from hantavirus, a flu-like virus transmitted to humans via rodent urine, saliva and droppings.
  — Charna Flam, People.com, 8 Mar. 2025
• Most cases of hantavirus are reported in the Western and Southwestern United States.
  — Shiv Sudhakar, NBC News, 23 July 2024
• 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
• Officials said Arakawa died several days earlier from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, which is caused by a virus spread by rodents.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2025
• There is no current specific treatment to cure hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2025
• 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
• Symptoms of hantavirus Particles containing hantavirus get into the air when urine, saliva or poop from deer mice are stirred up, leading to hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS).
  — Shiv Sudhakar, NBC News, 23 July 2024
• The pianist died from hantavirus, a flu-like virus linked to rodent droppings, while her actor husband died a week later from a combination of severe heart disease, high blood pressure and advanced Alzheimer's disease.
  — Sharareh Drury, People.com, 31 Mar. 2025
• Arakawa, 65, died at their Santa Fe home in February from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome -- a disease spread through rodent urine, droppings or saliva, officials said.
  — Alex Stone, ABC News, 15 Apr. 2025
• 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
• Arakawa, 65, died on about Feb. 11 from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare disease transmitted through rodent urine, droppings or saliva, officials said.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2025
• The National Park Service reports that rats can also carry the pathogens hantavirus, leptospirosis, rat bite fever, and salmonellosis to human populations.
  — Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2024
• Some hantaviruses produce a rare but deadly disease called hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
  — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 21 July 2017