This weekend, authorities confirmed that Hackman died from hypertensive atherosclerosis cardiovascular disease, with ...

As the authorities started putting pieces of the puzzle together to understand her final days, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan ...

Heartbreaking details have emerged from Gene Hackman's final days on Earth. The legendary Hollywood star was found dead in ...

A longtime friend of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s believes the actor would have died “long ago” without his wife by his side. “She was very protective of him,” Tom Allin told the New York Times in ...

Betsy Arakawa, the wife of the late Gene Hackman, died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, New Mexico officials said Friday.

Forensic experts came to a conclusion Friday about the manner of death for actor Gene Hackman: He died of heart disease with ...

In late February, the couple was found dead in their New Mexico home, a heartrending end to the life they shared. Arakawa, 65 ...

Hantavirus, found throughout the world, is spread by contact with rodents or their urine or feces. It does not spread between people.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that if hantavirus progresses to hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, about 38% of people end up dying from the disease.

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.