By Mongabay.com “Bobcats are disease defenders,” Zara McDonald, founder of the U.S.-based conservation nonprofit Felidae ...

Four rodents in the U.S. are known to carry it: the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus), marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris), and hispid cotton rat (Sigmodon ...

This is the white-footed deer mouse, Peromyscus leucopus. People who are exposed by breathing in when fresh urine, dropping or nesting material of infected mice or rats are stirred up, the CDC said.

On February 28, 2025, actor Gene Hackman and his wife, pianist Betsy Arakawa, were found dead in their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A week later, a medical examiner concluded that Arakawa, 65 ...

It is not transmissible from person to person, Dr Jarrell said. Image: The deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) can carry the virus which causes hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in humans.

Identifying the key vector and host species that drive the transmission of zoonotic pathogens is notoriously difficult but critical for disease control. We present a nested approach for quantifying ...