hantavirus

plural hantaviruses

1. biologyAny virus of the genus Hantavirus, transmitted by aerosolized rodent excreta or rodent bites, especially the deer mouse. Hantaviruses cause Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS): incubation lasts for 1–5 weeks, sickness begins with fever and muscle aches, followed by shortness of breath and coughing.

   Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to determine if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise ship, amid reports that a number of passengers have already returned to their home countries.

   2026 May 7, “Argentina races to find origins of cruise ship hantavirus outbreak, amid reports some passengers have returned to US”, in The Guardian, sourced from Associated Press and Reuters, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 May 2026

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   To reveal the molecular epidemiology of hantaviruses in this region, a total of 374 small mammals (eight species of rodents and one species of shrew) were captured in the Chinese part of the Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island (Heilongjiang Province).[…] Overall, these results suggest that Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island harbors considerable hantavirus diversity.

   2014, Cai-QiaoWang et al., “Co-circulation of Hantaan, Kenkeme, and Khabarovsk Hantaviruses in Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, China”, in Virus Research, volume 191, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC