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In late June, a Grand Canyon National Park concessions employee contracted hantavirus, a rare but often fatal rodent-borne ...
A park employee at the Grand Canyon was exposed to hantavirus, and a separate case of exposure to rabies in the park has also ...
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 has long been known in the United States. Every year from 11 to 48 people -- mostly in the West and Southwest -- come down with it, and about 33% of them die.
Cases of two zoonotic diseases, rabies and Hantavirus, have been reported at the Grand Canyon. Zoonotic diseases are diseases ...
Hantavirus survivors remember their illnesses during Yosemite outbreak. Sept. 5, 2012— -- When Jennifer Benewiat first came down with a fever on Christmas 2010 at her home in Wichita, Kansas ...
Hantavirus, the disease that caused the death of Betsy Arakawa, actor Gene Hackman’s wife, has claimed the lives of three people in California. After Arakawa, 65, was found dead along with ...
Since hantavirus disease surveillance began in 1993, the CDC has reported 864 cases in the U.S. through the end of 2022. Of the cases, 35% of patients died.
Gene Hackman's wife, Betsy Arakawa Hackman, died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. What is hantavirus and how does it spread? Experts weigh in on the fatal disease.
Hantavirus, the rodent-borne pathogen blamed for the death of concert pianist Betsy Arakawa, the wife of actor Gene Hackman, is a rare but often fatal virus that has killed at least 34 people in ...