A park employee at the Grand Canyon was exposed to hantavirus, and a separate case of exposure to rabies in the park has also ...

With the Yosemite tourists having died from this normally high-altitude illness, we spoke with an infectious disease expert to see if hantavirus could spread to other areas of the country ...

There's Been A Hantavirus Outbreak At Mammoth Lakes, CA Located in California's stunning Mono County, surrounded by the Inyo National Forest and just a short jaunt away from Yosemite National Park ...

Chin-Hong said he recalls the hantavirus outbreak in Yosemite in 2012 when 10 campers got sick, and three died. "It was an enclosed tent with a lot of rodent droppings," he said.

Two separate cases of zoonotic diseases, hantavirus and rabies, were confirmed at Grand Canyon National Park. A park employee tested positive for hantavirus, while a bat found near the Colorado River ...

Outbreaks of the Sin Nombre hantavirus are now known to be linked to El Niño, which increases rainfall in the Southwestern US and boosts the rodent population (Credit: Alamy) Amid reports of a ...

In the world of infectious diseases, hantavirus remains relatively obscure until outbreaks occur. This virus, although rare, has the potential to cause severe respiratory and kidney diseases.

Autopsies determined that Arakawa died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare but serious illness with a death rate close to 40%. Hackman died a few days later of heart disease and Alzheimer’s ...

The disease is not known to spread human-to-human, according to Farber. How common is hantavirus? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began tracking the virus in 1993 after an outbreak ...

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The CDC started monitoring hantavirus in 1993 after an outbreak of severe respiratory illness in the Four Corners region — the area where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah meet. As of 2022 ...