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
• 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
• 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