Hanta

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Wii haz a problum wif teh aowtsied rodintz hazzing teh bubonic plague adn teh hanta viris. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And consequently, some were stricken by a mouse-borne hanta virus that had never before been noticed on this continent. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Fifty-five have since died, but the hanta-virus story is an exception. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Climate can profoundly influence the geographic range and intensity of other diseases that are vector borne (e.g., malaria, hanta virus, dengue). ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The piñon trees in that area consequently produce a bumper crop of nuts, and this, in turn, led to an explosion in the population of deer mice, and more deer mice equaled more contact with humans—which often equaled a greater chance that a rare and deadly form of the hanta virus would be spread. ❋ Maribeth Fischer (2007)

Holy hanta virus, I just helped my dog kill a rat! ❋ Lisa B. (2007)

The words 'hanta virus' and 'bubonic plague' were the furthest thing from my mind. ❋ Nightnurse (2006)

There was that hanta virus spread by mice, I think. ❋ Unknown (2003)

SCHWARTZ: Well, I think, you know, several years ago we heard about hanta virus coming out of the desert and then we have SARS, and, as you say, West Nile. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Near as I can tell, we have both Mus musculus house mice and the dreaded Peromyscus maniculatus, the white-footed deer mouse which is so great at carrying the often lethal hanta virus. ❋ Grouse (2001)