To curb the spread of Lyme disease in the northeastern United States, scientists and public health experts for decades have ...

Hantavirus comes from contact with rodents after exposure, but how at-risk are you? Are there any cases in New Jersey? What ...

Gene Hackman's wife, Betsy Arakawa, died of hantavirus. What is it? What are the symptoms? Are there any cases of Georgia?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said hantavirus is a family of viruses. The viruses can cause two syndromes.

In the United States, the carriers of hantavirus are deer mice, cotton rats, rice rats and white-footed mice. How it's spread: Touching or breathing air particles of urine or droppings from ...

In the U.S. most cases caused by the deer mouse are west of the Mississippi River, the Mayo Clinic said. In the Northeast, the illness is caused by the white-footed mouse. In the Southeast ...

Five species in North America are known to carry hantaviruses, three of which are commonly found in Canada: the deer mouse, white-footed mouse and red-backed vole. In humans, a hantavirus ...

but other carriers in North America include the rice rat and cotton rat in the Southeast and the white-footed mouse in the Northeast, according to the Mayo Clinic. Infected deer mice live ...