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What is hantavirus?


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Dr. Ben Singer, pulmonary and critical care specialist at the Northwestern Medicine Canning Thoracic Institute, joins Lisa Dent to discuss hantavirus. In the wake of the death of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, hantavirus was determined to be her cause of death.













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