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Hantavirus Wiki doesn't claim original medical authority. Every factual claim on this site is drawn from, and paraphrased from, publicly available sources that explicitly permit reuse: material published by U.S. federal health agencies (public domain under U.S. law) and articles from Wikipedia (licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike). Text is rewritten in our own words rather than copied verbatim, and every article links back to what it's based on.

What each license means

  • Public domain (U.S. government work):Works created by U.S. federal agencies, including the CDC and the National Library of Medicine's MedlinePlus, are not eligible for copyright protection under 17 U.S.C. § 105. They can be freely reused; we still credit them for transparency and so readers can verify the underlying facts.
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