{"id":9154,"date":"2025-04-08T18:44:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9154"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:44:45","slug":"hantavirus-that-killed-gene-hackmans-wife-linked-to-3-deaths-in-california-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/08\/hantavirus-that-killed-gene-hackmans-wife-linked-to-3-deaths-in-california-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Hantavirus that killed Gene Hackman&#8217;s wife linked to 3 deaths in California town"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/science-news\/rare-virus-killed-gene-hackmans-wife-linked-3-deaths-california-town-rcna199855\">NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest death was the third from hantavirus in Mammoth Lakes since early February, health officials there said. Public health officials in California confirmed that three people in the town of Mammoth Lakes have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/hantavirus-caused-death-betsy-arakawa-wife-gene-hackman-rcna195418\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"died from hantavirus, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">died from hantavirus<\/a>, which killed actor Gene Hackman\u2019s wife in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement Thursday, health officials in Mono County reported a third death from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in the rural town in the Eastern Sierra region, calling the situation \u201ctragic\u201d and \u201calarming.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hantavirus is a relatively rare virus that rodents \u2014 typically mice \u2014 spread to humans from their urine, droppings and saliva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe occurrence of three cases in a short period has me worried, especially this early in the year,\u201d Dr. Tom Boo, a county public health officer,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/monohealthdepartment\/posts\/pfbid034Xem45nWHe6KEBbZsgdsAa6MZCYZo2vncbLJgH8gwLrr6vDCE8hyfhSWbUUK88Pal\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"said in a statement, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/science-news\/rare-virus-killed-gene-hackmans-wife-linked-3-deaths-california-town-rcna199855\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News The latest death was the third from hantavirus in Mammoth Lakes since early February, health officials there said. Public health officials in California confirmed that three people in the town of Mammoth Lakes have&nbsp;died from hantavirus, which killed actor Gene Hackman\u2019s wife in February. In a statement Thursday, health officials in Mono County [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases","category-haunta-virus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9155,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154\/revisions\/9155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}