A New Mexico health department assessment after the couple was found dead revealed rodents and their feces were discovered on the property.

June 1, 2025 – Mariposa County Health & Human Services officials issue a health and safety reminder on Hantavirus prevention.

Officials said Friday that Betsy Arakawa, the wife of Academy Award-winning actor Gene Hackman, died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome last month in the couple’s home in New Mexico. Hantavirus ...

Hantavirus, the rodent-borne pathogen blamed for the death of concert pianist Betsy Arakawa, the wife of actor Gene Hackman, is a rare but often fatal virus that has killed at least 34 people in ...

Hantavirus, the disease that caused the death of Betsy Arakawa, actor Gene Hackman’s wife, has claimed the lives of three people in California. After Arakawa, 65, was found dead along with ...

Rodent-borne hantaviruses are associated with two main clinical disorders in humans: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome. Although hantavirus diseases can ...

Hantavirus is a disease that can be transmitted through rodent bodily fluids. The virus only passes between humans in rare instances. Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) is a specific type of ...

Future Virology. 2009;4(4):383-389. These important tools were recently reported for the serologic diagnosis of hantavirus. However, it is necessary to further investigate these new methods in ...

The causes of death have been revealed for actor Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife Betsy Arakawa Hackman, 65. Hackman was found to have atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease along with advanced ...

Hantavirus recently made news headlines as the cause of death for Betsy Arakawa, the wife of actor Gene Hackman, but little is commonly known about it other than its connection to rodents.