单词 | hantavirus |
释义 | hantavirus/ˈhantəˌvʌɪrəs /noun A virus of a genus carried by rodents and causing various febrile haemorrhagic 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....
Origin1980s: from Hantaan (the name of a river in Korea where the virus was first isolated) + virus. |
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