Hantaviruses can cause serious illnesses affecting the lungs and death. Rodents pass the virus through their droppings, urine and saliva.

Rats have long been notorious for spreading disease, but a new study reveals just how much human-altered landscapes can ...

Health officials have confirmed that three people in a rural California town of Mammoth Lakes have died from hantavirus, the same infection that authorities said killed Gene Hackman’s wife earlier ...

Between 1993 and 2022, there were 864 cases of hantavirus disease in the United States. About 38% of severe infections lead ...

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

Invasive species cause environmental mayhem when they establish themselves in a new ecosystem. But these interlopers can also ...

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

A third fatal case of hantavirus was confirmed in Mammoth Lakes. All three cases this year occurred earlier than the usual ...

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

Betsy Arakawa was killed by Hantavirus earlier this year, and health experts in California are worried about the number of cases so early in the season ...

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare and fatal disease, has led to three deaths in California, including the wife of actor ...

Health officials in California have confirmed three deaths from the same rare rodent-borne virus that killed actor Gene ...