The deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), sometimes called the field mouse, is a little bigger than a house mouse. It's easily ...

Hantavirus comes from contact with rodents after exposure, but how at-risk are you? Are there any cases in New Jersey? What ...

The deer mouse is nocturnal, and is most active at twilight ... Identification and recent distribution of white-footed mice (Peromyscus) in New England. Journal of Mammalogy, 54:41-49.

A week later, a medical examiner concluded that Arakawa, 65, died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome and Hackman, 95, died a ...

Then another, and another. After they’d analyzed dozens of animals, the researchers realized that about 1 in 10 animals in their Peromyscus mouse colony don’t have hooks. It was the perfect ...

The cause of death for Betsy Arakawa, actor Gene Hackman's wife, was revealed to be hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare infectious disease.

One of Aesop’s fables tells of two cousin mice, one from the country and the other from the city. Though related, their habits and preferences are remarkably different. The country mouse enjoys simple ...

Unlike the deer mouse which it closely resembles, the white-footed mouse’s fur is not soft and luxuriant, and the general color of the back and sides is a reddish or orangish, not grayish, brown. A ...

The actor's wife Betsy Arakawa died after developing hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) around 11 February, a pathologist said.

FILE - Deer mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus, Carrier of Sin Nombre virus, agent of Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). Image courtesy CDC, 1974. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images).