Arakawa may have died first, on Feb. 11, from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare infectious disease that humans can catch from rodents, according to the New Mexico medical investigator’s office.

Rodents can transmit a variety of infections, including Hantavirus. For the state of New Mexico, a total of 135 Hantavirus ...

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 ...

Hantavirus is primarily spread by deer mice, which are prevalent in the Grand Canyon area. The virus can cause a host of serious, even fatal, illnesses such as hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) and ...

Hantavirus is a virus that spreads through the urine, feces or saliva of wild rodents. Those include deer mice, which spreads the Hantavirus (California Department of Public Health) ...

Yosemite National Park expanded a warning about the deadly hantavirus to 230,000 more recent visitors and confirmed on Thursday that a ninth person had contracted the virus, which has already ...

Hantavirus, an infectious disease, can be contracted by contact with rodents or their urine or feces. While it does not spread between people, the disease is found around the world.

The virus can cause a severe and sometimes deadly lung infection called hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency began tracking ...

Hantavirus infections, a group of emerging zoonotic diseases, pose significant global public health challenges. Transmitted primarily through contact with infected rodent excreta, these viruses ...

Nevertheless, human–human transmission of hantavirus has been reported in Argentina and Chile. [11, 12] In humans, the infection is transient and, apparently, only some infected individuals, but ...