Hantavirus, the disease that killed Gene Hackman’s wife, is carried in more than 30 animals in New Mexico, according to a new ...

Chaco Canyon National Historical Park is nestled deep in the Navajo Nation of modern-day New Mexico. Surrounded by ... Enter the pack rats. As the name suggests, these rodents are the original ...

Ever since 1993, when a deadly disease outbreak in the Four Corners first revealed the presence of hantavirus in North ...

a disease that is found in New Mexico. Hantaviruses can infect and cause serious disease in people worldwide, according to the CDC. People get hantavirus from contact with rodents like rats and ...

The New Mexico's Chief Medical Examiner announced during ... spread through contact with rodents such as deer mice, cotton rats, rice rats and the white-footed mouse. The virus is typically ...

Some species of mice and rats carry hantavirus ... an outbreak in the Four Corners area of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. Eighteen people were diagnosed with hantavirus in the outbreak ...

Hantavirus has been found in cotton rats in Florida ... said Dr. Heather Jarrell, New Mexico's chief medical examiner. Investigators were unclear how Hackman spent his last days.

The rat is the preferred model organism in many fields of biomedicine, such as toxicology testing. But when it comes to disease models, rats have been upstaged by mice, which traditionally were ...