RATS and cockroaches invading hospital beds and wards. Sick and elderly patients treated in ­corridors and car parks. And the ...

Hantaviruses are spread by rodents and can cause deadly respiratory and kidney illnesses in humans. It recently killed Betsy ...

New Mexico's governor has signed a bill to create a “turquoise alert" for missing Native Americans in New Mexico. The measure ...

Invasive species cause environmental mayhem when they establish themselves in a new ecosystem. But these interlopers can also ...

I broke the bike down as small as I could — batteries out, front wheel off, handlebars turned sideways — and lashed it to the bow. I had added a few tie down points to my kayak the night before to ...

Women incarcerated in New Mexico are suing the state corrections department, saying little has been done to address “filthy” kitchen conditions at their prison where an infestation of pigeons and ...

Hantavirus is a rare disease in the US, with most cases concentrated in the western states of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado ...

Hantavirus isn't just in deer mice, according to a new peer-reviewed study from the University of New Mexico, which found the virus in a quarter of more than 1,400 small mammals tested across the ...

Hollywood actor Gene Hackman's wife, Betsy Arakawa’s recent death brought the rare respiratory disease, Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, to the attention of the public.

Hantavirus – the virus that causes hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) and took the life of Gene Hackman's wife Betsy – has ...

A landmine-hunting rat in Cambodia has set a new world record by sniffing out more than 100 mines and pieces of unexploded ...

Last year, African giant pouched rats like Carolina prevented nearly 400,000 new cases of a deadly disease. It's possible because of their extreme sense of smell. Carolina, an African giant ...