Hantaviruses can cause serious illnesses affecting the lungs and death. Rodents pass the virus through their droppings, urine and saliva.

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 person in the remote California town of Mammoth Lakes has died of hantavirus, the sometimes-fatal illness that ...

Three people in the rural California town of Mammoth Lakes have died from the same rare virus that killed Gene Hackman’s wife ...