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Last week health officials disclosed that hanta, which is contracted by inhaling dust laced with rodent urine or feces, had claimed its first victim in the Northeast.
Hanta Goes East 2008
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No word yet on cause of death, but since he was just in Africa, we can only assume he had the ebola virus, or the hanta virus, or salmonella, or some kind of gnarly rhino wound.
SOME DUDE JUST DIED 2008
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Wii haz a problum wif teh aowtsied rodintz hazzing teh bubonic plague adn teh hanta viris.
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Second, there is good evidence that the disease that killed so many in Mexico via two or three great plagues was not a European import, but rather an indigenous hanta virus.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Christopher Columbus — Hero or Villain? 2009
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Keep them satisfied and feeling artificially relevent and they'll only steal things and infect you with hanta virus, like bottum feeding rodents that gnaw at your ballot chads.
Thompson Cites Openly Pro-Imperialism Author Andrew Roberts 2009
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And consequently, some were stricken by a mouse-borne hanta virus that had never before been noticed on this continent.
Outbreak Of Fear 2008
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Fifty-five have since died, but the hanta-virus story is an exception.
Outbreak Of Fear 2008
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And the rains have brought an explosion in the rat population; more than a dozen people have died from the hanta-virus the rodents carry.
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Climate can profoundly influence the geographic range and intensity of other diseases that are vector borne (e.g., malaria, hanta virus, dengue).
Global climate and health~ predicting infectious disease outbreaks 2008
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If the college student had picked up hanta during his Christmas break in New York, it would be an alarming sign that urban rodents, not just rural ones, carry the deadly virus.
Hanta Goes East 2008
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