How to Use hantavirus in a Sentence

hantavirus

noun
  • And when were you told that this might be hantavirus?
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 19 May 2026
  • There’s a lot to be learned about how hantavirus is spread.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 7 May 2026
  • Here's what to know about hantavirus in Texas.
    — Natassia Paloma, USA Today, 8 May 2026
  • What are the symptoms of hantavirus?
    — Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2026
  • How did the hantavirus outbreak start?
    — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 7 May 2026
  • But by now, the hantavirus was clawing its way into her lungs.
    — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2025
  • That said, hantavirus and coronavirus are not the same thing.
    — Sara Moniuszko, USA Today, 8 May 2026
  • Here’s what to know about hantavirus in the DMV.
    — Mike Stunson, USA Today, 7 May 2026
  • Dana, hantavirus occurs by what's called a zoonotic spillover.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 20 May 2026
  • There is no vaccine that protects against hantavirus.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 7 May 2026
  • Is hantavirus common in the US?
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 8 May 2026
  • Something about hantavirus touches a nerve.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 8 May 2026
  • Could hantavirus bring the next pandemic?
    — Irene Wright, USA Today, 7 May 2026
  • Three people aboard the MV Hondius died from hantavirus.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 18 May 2026
  • That outbreak was caused by a hantavirus now known as Sin Nombre virus.
    — ArsTechnica, 8 May 2026
  • Mice commonly nest in cars or campers and these can cause hantavirus infections.
    — Judy Stone, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • What happens to people aboard the cruise ship who are not infected with hantavirus?
    — ABC News, 8 May 2026
  • First, most strains of hantavirus do not spread directly from person to person.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
  • Arakawa died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a flu-like virus that is linked to rodent droppings.
    — Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
  • What hantavirus treatments are available?
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 7 May 2026
  • The cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak has been cleared to return to service.
    — Eve Chen, USA Today, 1 June 2026
  • The case was confirmed as a hantavirus infection on May 4.
    — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 7 May 2026
  • Some countries are testing all of their passengers who were exposed to hantavirus.
    — Erin Burnett, CNN Money, 14 May 2026
  • Arakawa, 65, died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
    — Eve Chen, USA Today, 8 May 2026
  • The Andes virus is the only hantavirus known to spread between people.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
  • The Andes virus, that was spread on the cruise ship, is a strain of the hantavirus that’s spread from human to human.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
  • There have been 13 total cases of Andes hantavirus linked to the ship and three deaths.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 29 May 2026
  • This type of hantavirus spreads between people through prolonged, close contact with a sick person.
    — Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 12 June 2026
  • People are rarely exposed to hantavirus because rodents tend to avoid humans.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Though hantavirus cases are rare, several have been making headlines of late.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026

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