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.

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 ...

From 1993 to 2017, there were only 728 confirmed hantavirus cases in the United States, with most being non-fatal, according to CDC data. In comparison, since late January, ...

Affected populations: Hantavirus disease is a rare but potentially deadly respiratory illness that is caused by a family of viruses known as hantaviruses. These viruses, which are found worldwide ...

Breathing in air-borne excrement from some types of rats and mice can cause infection from hantavirus, which can lead to hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, or HPS. Scientists are learning why HPS is ...