Virginia Tech researchers discovered six new rodent carriers of hantavirus and identified U.S. hotspots, highlighting the ...

Gene Hackman’s property was a "potential breeding" ground for hantavirus, according to a public health report after his wife, ...

Rat nests and dead rodents have been discovered on Gene Hackman's property, after the actor's wife Betsy Arakawa died of ...

Researchers in Virginia have issued a warning about a virus seldom seen in the US that comes from mice, the same virus that ...

Paanwaris Paansri, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation and co-author of the study, said: ‘In ...

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

“In North America, Peromyscus maniculatus, the deer mouse, is the most common carrier but our study also revealed that other rodent species have a higher prevalence of hantavirus, which changes ...

Hantavirus recently made news headlines as the cause of death for Betsy Arakawa, the wife of actor Gene Hackman, but little ...

"In North America, Peromyscus maniculatus, the deer mouse, is the most common carrier but our study also revealed that other rodent species have a higher prevalence of hantavirus, which changes ...

maniculatus was perhaps the perfect illustration of regular determination. Research suggests that a quality related to lighter-shaded fur, nicknamed Agouti by researchers, usually arose somewhere in ...

Most everyone has heard the news of the tragic passing of two-time Academy Award winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife (Betsy Arakawa). His wife, you may recall, died from hantavirus pulmonary ...