How to Use deer mouse in a Sentence

deer mouse

noun
  • It is primarily found in deer mice.
    — Eva Flowe may 6, Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2026
  • The most common hantavirus in the United States is spread by the deer mouse.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 4 May 2026
  • The virus is primarily carried by wild rodents, such as deer mice and white-footed mice.
    — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 18 May 2026
  • Those raiding the almond orchards also include squirrels, deer mice and others, though rats have been by far the most destructive.
    — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Supporting characters like Fiona, a flying squirrel, and Dash, a deer mouse, round out the cast.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The hantavirus disease is carried in the feces, urine and saliva of deer mice and other rodents and on airborne particles and dust.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 12 May 2026
  • Trappings near her home in following months caught a variety of deer mice and white-footed mice, though the rodents tested negative for the virus.
    — Eva Flowe may 6, Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2026
  • Hantaviruses are carried in North America by deer mice and other rodents.
    — Allison Gibson, Sacbee.com, 14 May 2026
  • Hantavirus is an infectious disease that's normally spread through contact with rodents such as deer mice, cotton rats, rice rats and the white-footed mouse.
    — Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
  • Hantavirus is an infectious disease that's normally spread through contact with rodents such as deer mice, cotton rats, rice rats and the white-footed mouse.
    — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 7 May 2026
  • Hantavirus is carried by various rodents, especially the deer mouse.
    — Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 18 May 2026
  • While deer mice are the primary carriers of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, the researchers found infections across multiple rodent species.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2026
  • Hantavirus infections linked to deer mice can progress to hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, or HPS, a severe lung disease that can be deadly.
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2026
  • Osterholm said the United States sees about 30 hantavirus cases a year, mostly west of the Mississippi and traceable to a type of deer mouse that lives in the region.
    — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 11 May 2026
  • The disease is most frequently reported in the western United States, and particularly the Southwest, where deer mice are common.
    — Evan Bush, NBC news, 4 May 2026
  • In New Mexico, where Arakawa and Hackman lived, the most common carrier of hantavirus is the deer mouse, a small creature with a white underbelly, large eyes and oversize ears.
    — Evan Bush, NBC news, 4 May 2026
  • How to protect yourself Hantavirus cases can occur year-round, but the peak seasons in the United States are the spring and summer, which coincide with the reproductive seasons for deer mice.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
  • Hantavirus is an infectious disease that is normally spread through contact with rodents such as deer mice, cotton rats, rice rats and the white-footed mouse, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
    — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 9 May 2026
  • Hantavirus is an infectious disease that is normally spread through contact with rodents such as deer mice, cotton rats, rice rats and the white-footed mouse, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 4 May 2026
  • Hantavirus is an infectious disease that is normally spread through contact with rodents such as deer mice, cotton rats, rice rats and the white-footed mouse, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 21 May 2026
  • The Sin Nombre hantavirus is the most common cause of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome in North America and infects humans by way of the saliva, urine or droppings of deer mice, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 16 May 2026

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