Northern Nevada Public Health (NNPH) reported its first Hantavirus case in years last week, as nearby California counties ...

Hantavirus is a rare but potentially fatal virus spread by mice. This California mountain town is seeing a concerning uptick ...

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 ...

Northern Nevada Public Health (NNPH) confirmed the first case of Hantavirus in Washoe County since August 2023, according to ...

Hantavirus made national news this year after actor Gene Hackman’s wife died from the virus. Tahoe Vista resident Amie ...

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.” ...

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 ...

A young California man died from the same rare rodent ... where he perished from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare infectious disease linked to rodents, on March 6, his family told SFGATE.

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - Northern Nevada Public Health (NNPH) confirmed the first case of Hantavirus in Washoe County since August ...

Hantavirus infection is caused by breathing in contaminated airborne particles from the droppings, urine, or saliva of infected deer mice.

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 ...

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 ...