US wilderness outfits and public health officials have been warning about hantavirus for years, ever since an outbreak of the “Sin Nombre” virus, a type of hantavirus, was newly identified in ...

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 ...

Hantavirus survivors remember their illnesses during Yosemite outbreak. Sept. 5, 2012— -- When Jennifer Benewiat first came down with a fever on Christmas 2010 at her home in Wichita, Kansas ...

The deadly outbreak of hantavirus in Yosemite National Park has sent disease experts and rodent researchers scrambling for answers as people across the country second-guess their plans to visit ...

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 ...

To date, 10 people have fallen ill — and three have died — in the hantavirus outbreak at Yosemite National Park’s “signature” cabins in Curry Village, according to the U.S. Centers for ...

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 ...

California researchers and public health officials have launched what they describe as a groundbreaking series of studies of a rare mouse-borne virus that has infected at least nine Yosemite ...

In a scenario similar to dominoes toppling, the first one is El Nino, the climate phenomenon that erupts in the Pacific. And the final domino to drop, thousands of miles away, is diagnosis of a ...

Seeing the news of a hantavirus outbreak in Yosemite, I was immediately transported back to work I did nearly 20 years ago, when a “mystery illness” killed three out of four of its victims in ...

Federal and state health officials investigating the hantavirus outbreak at Yosemite National Park say it could take several weeks to determine how nine visitors contracted the illness – three ...