Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports ...

The virus that killed Betsy Arakawa, the wife of Gene Hackman, is a relatively rare, but devastating threat without a vaccine, treatment or cure. Hantaviruses, a family of pathogens, are spread by ...

Hackman, 95, died of cardiovascular and Alzheimer's disease likely around Feb. 18, about one week after his wife died from a rare syndrome, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, on about Feb. 11, officials said.

Betsy Arakawa, the wife of the late Gene Hackman, died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, New Mexico officials said Friday. The confirmation of her cause of death ends weeks of mystery after both ...

Actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease last month, while his wife, Betsy Arakawa, passed away a week earlier due to hantavirus, a rare disease often caused by contact with droppings from infected rodents. Hackman, 95, and his wife, Betsy Arakawa ...