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.

The man kept getting worse; in fact, he seemed to deteriorate before their eyes. Initially, he received supplemental oxygen ...

The first Douglas County case of hantavirus in five years was reported by Carson City Health and Human Services on Wednesday. A man under 50 years of age was hospitalized after inhaling or coming ...

Hantavirus is a rare but potentially fatal virus spread by mice. This California mountain town is seeing a concerning uptick in hantavirus infections this year.

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 ...

A 26-year-old California hotel worker, also a ski enthusiast, died from Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome complications, days after Gene Hackman and his wife's passing. Betsy Arakawa, Hackman's wife ...

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 ...

Hantavirus infection is caused by breathing in contaminated airborne particles from the droppings, urine, or saliva of infected deer mice. Watch the video at the top of the page for the full story.

Hantavirus is mainly carried by the deer mouse, which typically lives in rural areas west of the Mississippi River, such as Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. These mice “tend to ...

Becerra was the third person to die of hantavirus this year in Mono County in a string of deaths that Tom Boo, Mono County’s public health officer, previously called “tragic and alarming.” ...

Recently, HPS was also linked to three more deaths in a rural California town, weeks after they all contracted hantavirus. The deceased were all residents of Mammoth Lakes, a popular ski town in ...

open image in gallery Hantavirus is a virus that spreads through the urine, droppings, or saliva of wild rodents, including deer mice, and can cause serious disease in humans (California ...