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From Bunyamwera, a town in Western Uganda where one of the viruses was first isolated.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
bunyavirus
Today it means: Any of the Bunyaviridae, a family of negative-stranded RNA viruses, now most typically in genus Orthobunyavirus in family Peribunyaviridae, but also in all families in order Bunyavirales. Full definition →