The deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), sometimes called the field mouse, is a little bigger than a house mouse. It's easily ...

A week later, a medical examiner concluded that Arakawa, 65, died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome and Hackman, 95, died a week later of heart failure, probably unaware of his wife’s death because ...

FILE - Deer mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus, Carrier of Sin Nombre virus, agent of Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). Image courtesy CDC, 1974. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images).

It is not transmissible from person to person, Dr Jarrell said. Image: The deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) can carry the virus which causes hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in humans.