Boston.com readers said the pandemic remains an ever-present threat to public health, despite much of society having moved on.

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Treating clean indoor air as a public good would have protected Americans against all sorts of airborne diseases.

Five years later, the greatest basic science failure in generations caused the pandemic harms highlighted by people across ...

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What is hantavirus, and how do you get it and treat it? What to know about the disease that killed Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa.

Betsy Arakawa died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome at the age of 65, New Mexico health authorities said. Here’s what to know about the rare but deadly disease.

Hantavirus, a rare but deadly rodent-borne disease, caused the death of Gene Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa. Learn about ...

Hackman, 95, died of cardiovascular disease, with Alzheimer’s disease as a significant contributory factor, about a week ...