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Medical Term:

Black Creek Canal virus

Definition

a species of Hantavirus in the U.S. causing hantavirus pulmonary syndrome; transmitted by the cotton rat.

[Black Creek Canal in Florida where the cotton rats were captured from which the virus was first isolated]

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