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han·ta·vi·rus (hăn'tə-vī'rəs)
n.
Any of a group of viruses carried by rodents that cause epidemic hemorrhagic fever and severe respiratory infections in humans.

[After the Hantan River, South Korea (near which Westerners were first infected by the virus in the 1950s).]




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