David Morens
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LOCATION: Bethesda, MD, United States
Medical epidemiologist, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. Professor of Epidemiology and Tropical Medicine, University of Hawaii School of Medicine, Honolulu.
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Hantavirus, (genus Hantavirus), any member of a genus of viruses (Hantavirus) of the family Bunyaviridae that cause acute respiratory illnesses in humans. The hantaviruses are rodent-borne viruses, each of which has been evolutionarily adapted to a specific rodent host. Human infection occurs where…
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