Health warning in California: Hantavirus claims 3 lives in Mammoth Lakes amid Spike following Gene Hackman's wife's death | Today news

A month after famous actor Gene Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa, died at the Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in the couple’s new Mexico house, three people in the rural city of Mammoth Lakes died of the same disease that caused alarm among health officials, New York Post reports on April 5. According to the report, in February, Betsy Arakawa died of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, after which the rare disease came into the national spotlight. The report added that Mono County Public Health confirmed three more deaths this week. “The appearance of three cases in a short period made me worried,” Nyp said. Tom Boo, Mono County’s public health officer, said. For the health officials, it took two weeks to unravel the mystery around the death of the celebrity couple because they revealed that Arakawa had the fatal virus. How was HPS distributed? Experts suggest that Hantavirus lung syndrome be caught by contact with feces, urine or saliva of infected mice. It is mostly caught by breathing infected air particles. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention catch between 20 and 50 people HPS each year. One -third of the people who are infected die from the disease. What experts said? Referring to the reasons for the death of people, the authorities of the public health of Mono County said that one of the other two cases may have been the result of the victim who failed rodent waste, while the individual was probably exposed at home during a well -known infection, but there was no evidence of mice infection in this latest case, which felt the mystery around the elusive illness. “We don’t have a clear sense of where this young adult gained the virus,” Nyp said. In HPS, the infections occur in late spring or summer, making these three cases ‘strikingly unusual’ so early in the year, Mono County Public Health added.