hantavirus in English
noun
1
a virus of a genus carried by rodents and causing various febrile hemorrhagic diseases, often with kidney damage or failure.
Mammals are the most common reservoirs of zoonotic disease, and rodents play the leading role, implicated in the spread of plague, Lyme disease, hantavirus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
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1. The Bunyaviridae are a very large family of single-strand, enveloped RNA viruses (more than 300 viruses) and consists of five genera of viruses: OrthoBunyavirus, Phlebovirus, Nairovirus, Hantavirus, and Tospovirus (Tospoviruses infect only plants).
2. These include increases in the frequency and duration of smog and heat waves, deterioration of air and water quality, and changes to the geographic distribution of fauna (e.g. broader range of mosquitoes and rodents propagating illnesses such as the West Nile virus and hantavirus) and flora (e.g. a broader range of allergenic plants).