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Virus Hunter: UTHSC's Colleen Jonsson Seeks Answers to Treat Deadly Viruses, Including COVID-19
May 29, 2020
MEMPHIS, Tennessee, May 29 -- The University of Tennessee Health Science Center issued the following news on May 28:

It's 105 degrees in June in the jungle of Paraguay, and Colleen Jonsson and her students are hunting a killer. They're sweating under heavy biosafety gear and working in a makeshift lab set up on the porch of a house owned by the World Wildlife Federation.

Their elusive prey is the hantavirus, a rodent-borne disease that has killed thousands acr . . .

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