In February 2025, the classical pianist Betsy Arakawa died in her New Mexico home from a virus most people had never heard of ...

If a truly snowy winter ever arrives to our region, you might see footprints resembling those left by some tiny, whimsical rabbit. In reality, they likely belong to the western deer mouse. As the ...

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — A deer mouse collected in routine monitoring Oct. 22 at the Los Vaqueros Group Horse Campground in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park has tested positive for the potentially deadly ...

Experts explain whether all mice carry the virus and when droppings become dangerous after three deaths aboard the MV Hondius have renewed hantavirus fears.

The deer mouse, believed to be the most common mammal in North America, has a very different take on family values than its evolutionary sibling, the oldfield mouse. Oldfield mice are monogamous.

Hantavirus is common in wild rodents, and deer mice are the main carriers of the virus in San Diego County. While people rarely come into contact with wild rodents, it is important to take basic ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yosemite National Park has begun trapping and killing deer mice whose growing numbers may have helped create the conditions that led to a hantavirus outbreak that has ...

A deer mouse collected during routine monitoring from a rural area near Boulevard has tested positive for the potentially deadly hantavirus, it was announced Thursday. The mouse was collected in ...

It's been more than 70 days since we first received a snowfall that covered the ground. This introductory snow at Thanksgiving time was followed a week later, in early December, by a heavy coat. About ...