ProbableNamed from the place
Choclo virus
noun · first attested 2000s
The virus is named after a bar, which is named after a corncob.
A Panamanian hantavirus carried by the pygmy rice rat, causing hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in people.
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- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- ProbableThe conventional story is likely, with caveats.
- Attested
- 2000s
- Part of speech
- noun
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Las Tablas
- In English
Choclo virus
It was isolated in 2000 from a rat caught near Las Tablas in Los Santos province, during an outbreak that had begun that January. Researchers named it for the El Choclo cantina nearby; choclo is Spanish for a corncob. Hantaviruses are conventionally named for where they turn up, as Hantaan was for the Korean river.
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