in many hantavirus-infected acutely ill patients, to inform on the specific virus causing infection and the viral load in the blood, allowing a better understanding of clinical course and ...

When a mysterious and deadly illness began to sicken members of the Navajo community in the Four Corners region of the ...

Arizona public health officials are warning that hantavirus, a virus spread by rodents to humans, is causing an increase in a ...

Officials with the New Mexico Department of Health announced in a Feb. 20 news release that a San Juan County man had contracted the state’s first case of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome this year.

Besides sealing entryways and practicing good sanitation in and around the house, you’ll also need to exterminate these ...

A viral video shows the exact moment a man realized that he had mice in his apartment when he was making a snack.

A good example would be the discovery of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in the United States in 1993, a very severe pulmonary disease in people that caused many deaths. That was associated ...

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In turn, the greater density of individuals increases predator population sizes and incidence of disease. Hantavirus outbreaks associated with deer mouse population explosions have been shown to ...

In industrialized nations, polio, smallpox, rubella and measles may have been curbed but new threats like AIDS, Lyme disease, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome and West Nile virus encephalitis have ...

Social media users were divided over the encounter in the viral clip, with one urging: "please, don't touch the fawn." ...

However, it is necessary to further investigate these new methods in order to better evaluate their real usefulness with regard to diagnosis of hantavirus infection. First serologic tests used in ...