When a mysterious and deadly illness began to sicken members of the Navajo community in the Four Corners region of the ...

In the spring of 1993, a cluster of cases of acute, unexplained respiratory distress with high mortality drew public and scientific attention to the Four Corners area of the southwestern United ...

Rodent-borne hantaviruses are associated with two main clinical disorders in humans: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome. Although hantavirus diseases can ...

Authorities said boy died “traumatically” and as a “direct result of his torture and abuse by his adoptive parents.” ...

Arizona public health officials are warning that hantavirus, a virus spread by rodents to humans, is causing an increase in a ...

Tenants of Kelly Village say a severe rat infestation has impacted their quality of life. One went to urgent care after ...

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On a warm May day, an all-black domestic shorthair cat named Pepper entered his Gainesville, Florida, home and dropped a dead ...

At least eleven people have died in Argentina after becoming infected with hantavirus, a disease carried by rats and other rodents, according to a news alert from the World Health Organization (WHO).

In industrialized nations, polio, smallpox, rubella and measles may have been curbed but new threats like AIDS, Lyme disease, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome and West Nile virus encephalitis have ...

Blooms from this abundant plant occur about every 50 years. Here's why it causes a rat flood and, ultimately, famine in certain regions of the world.