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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hantavirus /ˈhantəˌvʌɪrəs/

▶noun a virus of a genus carried by rodents and causing various febrile haemorrhagic diseases, often with kidney damage or failure.

– origin 1980s: from Hantaan (a river in Korea where the virus was first isolated).

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