Although not all deer mice carry the virus, taking precautions is crucial. Hantavirus symptoms can appear 1 to 5 weeks after exposure and the virus has a fatality rate of 36 percent. There is no ...

Although the district did not say what kind of rodents, in Eastern Washington deer mice are the carriers of the virus. People can be infected with hantavirus ... fresh air. Symptoms appear one ...

The detailed structure of a misfolded protein from a diseased deer could help explain why the disease hasn’t made the leap to humans.

When a mysterious and deadly illness began to sicken members of the Navajo community in the Four Corners region of the ...

The range is transcontinental, and from Alaska to southern Mexico, except for the southeastern U.S. In the Adirondacks the deer mouse is wide spread, occurring in all terrestrial habitats at all ...

Unlike the deer mouse which it closely resembles, the white-footed mouse’s fur is not soft and luxuriant, and the general color of the back and sides is a reddish or orangish, not grayish, brown. A ...

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Aside from grasshopper, prey include deer mice, pocket mice, and scorpions, whose poison seems ineffectual against the killer. Called the cougar as well, the mountain lion is one of America's most ...

Deer mice are also the most common spreader of hantavirus. Once they get inside your home, mice can cause a lot of damage. They will eat your food, bite holes into your clothes, and gnaw on your ...

Highland deer mice and their lowland cousins ventured on a simulated seven-week ascent to 6,000 meters. By tracking how the mice responded to cold stress and progressively lower oxygen levels ...

Teams of mountaineering mice are helping advance understanding into how evolutionary adaptation to localized conditions can enable a single species to thrive across diverse environments.

In a study led by Naim Bautista, a postdoctoral researcher in Jay Storz’s lab at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the team took highland deer mice and their lowland cousins on a simulated ascent to ...