The illness often begins with flu-like symptoms like fever, fatigue and muscle aches and can rapidly progress to severe ...

In late June, a Grand Canyon National Park concessions employee contracted hantavirus, a rare but often fatal rodent-borne ...

However, the positive news is that hantavirus has never spread from person to person in North America. “Person-to-person ...

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

A park employee at the Grand Canyon was exposed to hantavirus, and a separate case of exposure to rabies in the park has also been confirmed.

Two separate cases of zoonotic diseases, hantavirus and rabies, were confirmed at Grand Canyon National Park. A park employee ...

Grand Canyon officials say a concessions employee got sick with hantavirus and two people came into contact with a ...

The Grand Canyon reports a hantavirus case in an employee and a positive rabies test in a bat, prompting health precautions.

Officials with the National Park Service say two separate zoonotic disease were reported at the Grand Canyon, and one of them ...

Hantavirus is "rare but not unusual," said the Post. Deer mice, the sole source of the virus in the area, are widespread in the Eastern Sierra region, according to county health officials.

Hantavirus is fairly rare, but three people recently died from HPS in California, and six new species of hantavirus-carrying rodents have been identified.

Hantavirus can infect humans through contact with rodents – most commonly through the deer mouse in the United States – especially when exposed to their urine, droppings and saliva, according ...