Mono County, in the Mammoth Lakes area, reported three deaths related to hantavirus. Here's what Los Angeles County residents should know about the virus.

A 26-year-old Mammoth Mountain employee died from hantavirus. An investigation found mice droppings at the hotel where he ...

Hantavirus, the disease that caused the death of Betsy Arakawa, actor Gene Hackman’s wife, has claimed the lives of three ...

MAMMOTH LAKES – Three people in a rural California town have died from hantavirus, the same infection that authorities said killed Gene Hackman's wife earlier this year. Health officials in Mono ...

The extremely rare disease, which is spread by rodents, claimed the life of Gene Hackman's wife, Betsy Arakawa, in New Mexico in February.

Hantavirus spreads through the urine, droppings, or saliva of wild rodents (California Department of Public Health) Three people have died from Hantavirus in Mammoth Lakes, California, a small ...

(NEXSTAR) — A third person in the remote California town of Mammoth Lakes has died of hantavirus, the sometimes-fatal illness that authorities say Betsy Arakawa, the wife of actor Gene Hackman, died ...

Public health officials said it was “strikingly unusual” to have three hantavirus deaths this early in the year.

The recent deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, as well as three California residents, have brought attention to a rare rodent-borne virus that has the potential to turn deadly. While the ...

The infection began getting widespread attention after it was linked to the recent death of Gene Hackman's wife . | Credit: ...