English Explanatory Dictionary

Bourbon virus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Bourbon virus

Etymology

Discovered in 2014 in a case in Bourbon County, Kansas by Olga Kosoy.

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