Bourbon virus

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • A virus believed to be in species Dhori thogotovirus (species) in family Orthomyxoviridae, a tick-borne virus discovered in 2014 that has caused at least one fatality in an otherwise healthy man

Related

Broader meaning words

  • Articulavirales (order) - order; Orthomyxoviridae - family; Thogotovirus (genus) - genus; Dhori thogotovirus (species) - species

Origin

  • Discovered in 2014 in a case in Bourbon County, Kansas.

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