Hantaviruses can cause serious illnesses affecting the lungs and death. Rodents pass the virus through their droppings, urine ...

A rare virus that killed actor Gene Hackman's wife in February has been linked to the deaths of two more people in California ...

Three people in a rural town in California have died from hantavirus, the rare virus that killed late actor Gene Hackman’s ...

A third person in the remote California town of Mammoth Lakes has died of hantavirus, the sometimes-fatal illness that ...

Three fatal cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) have been reported in Mammoth Lakes, California, alarming public ...

The cases have heightened concerns among public health officials about the spread of the rare ... California Department of Public Health. All three individuals who contracted and died from the ...

Three people in Mammoth Lakes died recently after contracting hantavirus, the same infection that killed Gene Hackman's wife ...

The infection began getting widespread attention after it was linked to the recent death of Gene Hackman's wife . | Credit: ...

A third person in the remote California ... The virus can cause a severe and sometimes deadly lung infection called hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, according to the CDC. All three deaths in Mono ...