Hantavirus has been detected in 97 Californians since 1980. While early symptoms can be mistaken for influenza, the disease ...

Hackman, who died at age 95 of natural causes, tested negative for hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, according to a copy of the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator's autopsy, obtained by ...

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His death has now been confirmed to be caused by hantavirus - a rare but severe respiratory illness spread through exposure to rodent droppings - the same disease that led to Gene Hackman's wife's ...

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California has detected 100 hantavirus infections over several decades, with 34% of these cases fatal. The "main hantavirus disease of concern" in the United States is hantavirus pulmonary ...

Officials confirmed a third death attributed to the rare hantavirus in Mammoth Lakes in April, spurring questions over how it spreads and whether it’s fatal. It’s the same virus that resulted ...