Actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, had their cause of deaths shared by New Mexico health officials Friday, with Hackman dying of a form of heart disease and Arakawa dying of ...

"It took me about an hour to work myself up to be brave enough to get rid of it," the woman told Newsweek of an unwelcome discovery.

The virus that killed Betsy Arakawa, the wife of Gene Hackman, is a relatively rare, but devastating threat without a vaccine ...

Betsy Arakawa died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare rodent-spread disease with a mortality rate up to 50% in the ...

The Academy Award-winning actor; his wife, Betsy Arakawa; and their dog were found dead in their New Mexico home on Feb. 26.

The Mayo Clinic says the most common carrier of hantaviruses in North America is the deer mouse, though different ... as the two were found dead together in their home. Hackman, 95, was found ...

Ms. Arakawa, the wife of the actor Gene Hackman, died from the effects of a disease often caused by contact with droppings ...