The two positive cases of Hantavirus in Arizona for 2025 have been fatal, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services. These fatalities follow four Hantavirus-related deaths in Arizona ...

Between 1993 and 2022, 864 cases of hantavirus disease were reported in the United States. New Mexico reported the highest number of cases, at 122, followed by Colorado (119) and Arizona (86).

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

The recent deaths of a Hollywood couple and three California residents have brought attention to a rare rodent-borne virus ...

The New Mexico property where actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead in February appears to have been infested with rodents that carry the deadly hantavirus responsible for ...

Virginia Tech researchers seek to understand the environmental factors that influence the distribution of hantavirus in rodent populations across the United States.

BLACKSBURG, Va. – After a new study at Virginia Tech, some professionals have identified hantavirus as having “pandemic potential.” “This project is timely because hantavirus is considered ...

That includes HPS and nonpulmonary hantavirus infections. During that time, 34 states identified cases of HPS, mostly in the Four Corners region where Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado meet.

The team collected samples from nearly 2,000 animals, which they shipped to their lab in La Réunion to be tested for the presence of hantavirus. They sequenced the viral genome in samples that ...

⚠️ Three fatal cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS ... in the Southwest (especially in rural areas like New Mexico, Arizona, and California). Globally, different types of hantaviruses ...