Since the pandemic, we've all been more health conscious, but this popular California mountain town is at the center of a deadly virus outbreak.

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 ...

died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in March. The virus can spread through the urine, feces or saliva of wild rodents, including deer mice, which are common in many parts of California ...

California has detected 100 hantavirus infections over several decades, with 34% of these cases fatal. The "main hantavirus disease of concern" in the United States is hantavirus pulmonary ...

Have there been any cases of hantavirus in California? While there have been cases throughout the U.S., hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is most common in rural areas of the West. The California ...

MAMMOTH LAKES – Three people in a rural California town have died from hantavirus, the same infection that authorities said killed Gene Hackman's wife earlier this year. Health officials in Mono ...

Mono County has reported 27 cases of hantavirus since 1993, the most of any county in California. Hantavirus is rare in Los Angeles County, and most cases have been linked to out-of-county exposure.

California reported 78 cases and 24 deaths in that same time span. The California cases include a hantavirus outbreak at Yosemite National Park in summer 2012 that infected visitors staying in ...

Hantavirus spreads through the urine, droppings, or saliva of wild rodents (California Department of Public Health) Three people have died from Hantavirus in Mammoth Lakes, California, a small ...

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 ...

One hundred hantavirus infections with exposure in California have been identified between 1980 and 2025, and 34% of these cases were fatal, according to the California Department of Public Health ...