This is not the first time the rare hantavirus has been traced to a National Park, as there were cases in people who had visited Yosemite National Park in 2012.

At the top of Yosemite National Park’ s Vernal Fall on a recent holiday weekend, amid the throngs of tourists snapping photos ...

The virus that killed Gene Hackman's wife is worrying scientists. Hantavirus is spreading due to climate change and rodent ...

A park employee at the Grand Canyon was exposed to hantavirus, and a separate case of exposure to rabies in the park has also ...

A park employee at the Grand Canyon was exposed to hantavirus, and a separate case of exposure to rabies in the park has also ...

Talyn Vigil, one of seven charged in the beating death of Preston Lord, has settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Lord's ...

In late June, a Grand Canyon National Park concessions employee contracted hantavirus, a rare but often fatal rodent-borne ...

Two separate cases of zoonotic diseases, hantavirus and rabies, were confirmed at Grand Canyon National Park. A park employee ...

Conclusion Hantavirus infections remain uncommon in America, but when they do occur, they can be deadly. Prevention is your best defense against exposure.

Hantavirus was first recognized in the early 1990s in the United States, though it had been causing illness in other parts of the world much earlier. The particular strain that tends to cause ...

Hantavirus has been detected in 97 Californians since 1980. While early symptoms can be mistaken for influenza, the disease it causes can be fatal.