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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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. News Home Page ...

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome typically begins with flu-like symptoms before rapidly progressing to a ... The agency began tracking the virus after a 1993 outbreak in the Four Corners region ...

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 ...

Three deaths from hantavirus in Mammoth Lakes, California, including the wife of actor Gene Hackman, have raised concerns. Dr. Tom Boo noted the unusual timing and lack of clear infection sources ...

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 ...

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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 ...