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- noun the RNA virus that causes Bolivian hemorrhagic fever; carried by rats and mice
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chained_bear commented on the word machupo virus
"McCullough's illness and death were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, which began their own series of tests looking for dengue, St Louis encephalitis, spotted fever, leptospirosis, Machupo virus and yellow fever—all viruses known to exist in South America."
—Molly Caldwell Crosby, The American Plague (New York: Berkeley Books, 2006), 212
October 6, 2008