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Hantavirus, the disease that caused the death of Betsy Arakawa, actor Gene Hackman’s wife, has claimed the lives of three people in California. Experts weigh in on the deadly virus.

A third fatal case of hantavirus was confirmed in Mammoth Lakes. All three cases this year occurred earlier than the usual ...

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Health officials in California have confirmed three deaths from the same rare rodent-borne virus that killed actor Gene ...

A rare virus that killed actor Gene Hackman's wife in February has been linked to the deaths of three people in California.

(NEXSTAR) — A third person in the remote California town of Mammoth Lakes has died of hantavirus, the sometimes-fatal illness that authorities say Betsy Arakawa, the wife of actor Gene Hackman, died ...