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A park employee at the Grand Canyon was exposed to hantavirus, and a separate case of exposure to rabies in the park has also ...
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 ...
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.
Hantavirus is fairly rare, but three people recently died from HPS in California, and six new species of hantavirus-carrying rodents have been identified.
What's in a name? Now that the pathogen causing the 1993 HPS outbreak in the Southwestern U.S. had been identified as a novel hantavirus, scientists needed to name it.
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 ...
Betsy Arakawa died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare rodent-spread disease with a mortality rate up to 50% in the American Southwest, officials said.
A Bay Area infectious disease specialist gives advice about hantavirus after it was made known that Gene Hackman’s wife died of the virus.
Amid reports of a mysterious respiratory illness spreading among children in China, an expert explains how regularly unexplained outbreaks turn up.
What are the symptoms of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome? Hantavirus infections can initially cause flu-like symptoms that last roughly three to six days.
Research identifies hantavirus in South Korea using a new rapid test, paving the way for early outbreak control by Korea University College of Medicine ...
What is hantavirus, and how do you get rare infectious disease? The wife of Gene Hackman died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, officials ruled.