State health officials warned Coloradans Friday to avoid hantavirus exposure. There have been two confirmed cases of hantavirus in the state this year, one of which resulted in death. Hantavirus is a...

Saguache County, CO health authorities report the confirmation of a hantavirus related fatality in a recently deceased resident. Confirmation was done by the Colorado Department of Public Health state...

Hantaviruses are single-stranded, enveloped, negative sense RNA viruses related in the Bunyaviridae family. They typically infect rodents but do not cause disease within their hosts. Humans are susceptible...