Actor Gene Hackman has died of heart failure. This was confirmed by the medical examiner in New Mexico, who made the final ...

A 26-year-old man in the US died from the same rare rat-infectious disease that killed Gene Hackman's wife, Betsy Arakawa, in February.

Rodrigo Becerra, 26, had fallen seriously ill and was prescribed antibiotics the night before he was found convulsing in his ...

A 26-year-old Mammoth Mountain employee died from hantavirus. An investigation found mice droppings at the hotel where he ...

The team collected samples from nearly 2,000 animals, which they shipped to their lab in La Réunion to be tested for the presence of hantavirus. They sequenced the viral genome in samples that came ...

Local health officials are concerned after the unusual spike in Hantavirus-related deaths so close together, with all three deaths occurring in the first few months of the year. The deaths ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. – After a new study at Virginia Tech, some professionals have identified hantavirus as having “pandemic potential.” “This project is timely because hantavirus is considered ...

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

Three people in Mammoth Lakes died recently after contracting hantavirus, the same infection that killed Gene Hackman’s wife Betsy Arakawa earlier this year. The cases have heightened concerns ...

Three people in Mammoth Lakes died recently after contracting hantavirus. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) ...