County News Service contributed to this report March 12,2025 (San Diego) -- An autopsy has determined that actor Gene Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa, died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.

Finding hantavirus in wild rodents is not uncommon in San Diego County, there were a total of 25 cases in 2024. However, people rarely come into direct contact with infected animals because wild ...

The county will conduct pesticide treatments in the Rolando neighborhood this week after discovering the West Nile virus last ...

Following the discovery of West Nile virus in mosquitoes in Rolando late last month, county crews will conduct pesticide ...

Every year, the San Diego Humane Society gets an influx of pets from the Fourth of July fireworks. The shelter has taken in ...

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

The Grand Canyon reports a hantavirus case in an employee and a positive rabies test in a bat, prompting health precautions.

Officials with the National Park Service say two separate zoonotic disease were reported at the Grand Canyon, and one of them ...

Assemblymember David Alvarez (D-San Diego) announced today that he secured $5 million in state funding to the University of California San Diego to provide a collaborative public health degree with ...