Rare Rodent-Borne Virus Claims 3 Lives in California

In what health officials called “strikingly unusual” infections, three eastern Californians died in recent weeks after contracting Hantavirus, a rare, rodent-borne virus that also killed the wife of the late actor Gene Hackman in February. The three people all lived and worked in Mammoth Lakes, a popular winter sports destination in the Sierra Nevada mountain […]