Hantavirus is primarily spread by deer mice, which are prevalent in the Grand Canyon area. The virus can cause a host of ...

While cases of human-to-human transmission of a hantavirus have been reported in South America, such transmission has never been recorded in North America. Treatment.

First is hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, which usually presents with fever, headache, and body aches for the first three to four days. It is followed by cough, then difficulty breathing, and death ...

Human-to-human transmission has been observed in only one strain in South America. ... Hantavirus has two main manifestations in humans: hantavirus pulmonary syndrome and hemorrhagic fever with ...

Hantavirus from rodents can cause serious health complications. ... The Andes virus, found in South America, is the only hantavirus known to show human-to-human transmission.

The CDC states that hantaviruses in the U.S. cannot be passed from person to person, while rare instances of human-to-human transmission have been documented in Chile and Argentina in people who ...

Hantavirus recently made news headlines as the cause of death for Betsy Arakawa, the wife of actor Gene Hackman, but little is commonly known about it other than its connection to rodents.

Officials say there have been no reported cases of human-to-human transmission of hantavirus in Northern America and Gene Hackman's official cause of death was tied to heart disease with Alzheimer ...

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI – Health officials have confirmed the first human case of Sin Nombre hantavirus in Michigan. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the Washtenaw County ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the Washtenaw County Health Department confirmed the first human case of Sin Nombre hantavirus in Michigan, MLive ...

Officials say there have been no reported cases of human-to-human transmission of hantavirus in Northern America and Gene Hackman's official cause of death was tied to heart disease with Alzheimer ...