Betsy Arakawa — the classical pianist married to Gene Hackman — died last month of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare ...

Worries about hantavirus are spreading online after news broke that the late Gene Hackman's wife, Betsy Arakawa, had passed ...

In the United States, the carriers of hantavirus are deer mice, cotton rats, rice rats and white-footed mice. How it's spread ...

Betsy Arakawa died from hantavirus days before her husband, actor Gene Hackman, died of heart disease, New Mexico officials said.

Since 1993, 122 people have gotten sick from the virus in Colorado – the second most number of cases of any U.S. state.