The number of victims, all Mammoth Lakes residents, is high for this time of year, officials said. The virus killed Betsy Arakawa in February.

Betsy Arakawa died in February from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome after which the rare disease came into the national spotlight.

At least three people have died from a rare and deadly virus that killed actor Gene Hackman's wife earlier this year. The ...

One of the last things people expected was that a little-known virus named Hantavirus was involved in their demise. Apparently, Arakawa had contracted the virus and had quickly deteriorated and ...

The occurrence of three cases in a short period has me worried, especially this early in the year,” Dr. Tom Boo, a county ...

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

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

The rare virus that killed Gene Hackman 's wife Betsy Arakawa has claimed the lives of three more people in a small ...

Hantavirus isn't just in deer mice, according to a new peer-reviewed study from the University of New Mexico, which found the virus in a quarter of more than 1,400 small mammals tested across the ...

The rare hantavirus -- that few had heard of before it killed Gene Hackman's wife -- has killed more people ... this time in California.