US wilderness outfits and public health officials have been warning about hantavirus for years, ever since an outbreak of the “Sin Nombre” virus, a type of hantavirus, was newly identified in ...

The deadly outbreak of hantavirus in Yosemite National Park has sent disease experts and rodent researchers scrambling for answers as people across the country second-guess their plans to visit ...

With the Yosemite tourists having died from this normally high-altitude illness, we spoke with an infectious disease expert to see if hantavirus could spread to other areas of the country ...

This isn't the first instance of hantavirus in Mammoth Lakes, with there being 27 reported cases of the virus in the town since 1993. However, the cluster of hantavirus-related deaths is a cause ...

Chin-Hong said he recalls the hantavirus outbreak in Yosemite in 2012 when 10 campers got sick, and three died. "It was an enclosed tent with a lot of rodent droppings," he said.

Officials announced Friday that Betsy Arakawa, Gene Hackman’s wife, had died of hantavirus — ending speculation about the circumstances surrounding her death while sparking new questions about ...

Autopsies determined that Arakawa died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare but serious illness with a death rate close to 40%. Hackman died a few days later of heart disease and Alzheimer’s ...

Outbreaks of the Sin Nombre hantavirus are now known to be linked to El Niño, which increases rainfall in the Southwestern US and boosts the rodent population (Credit: Alamy) Amid reports of a ...

The CDC started monitoring hantavirus in 1993 after an outbreak of severe respiratory illness in the Four Corners region — the area where Arizona, ... Map of hantavirus cases in the United States.

Three deaths from hantavirus in Mammoth Lakes, California, including the wife of actor Gene Hackman, have raised concerns. Dr. Tom Boo noted the unusual timing and lack of clear infection sources ...

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