The virus can spread through the urine, feces or saliva of wild rodents, including deer mice. To limit the risk of infection, ...

A rare virus that killed actor Gene Hackman's wife in February has been linked to the deaths of three people in California.

Three people died in Mammoth Lakes, California, from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, the disease that suddenly killed actor ...

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

Three people have died from Hantavirus in Mammoth Lakes, California, a small town east of San Francisco, “alarming” health ...

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

Vacuuming up mouse droppings can spread the virus through the air and lead to infection ... With a population of more than ...

Three fatal cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) have been reported in Mammoth Lakes, California, alarming public ...

Hantavirus is carried by rodents, particularly deer mice, and spreads to humans when they breathe in air contaminated with viral particles from rodent urine, saliva or droppings. Risk increases ...

A third person in the remote California town of Mammoth Lakes has died of hantavirus, the sometimes-fatal illness that ...

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